grub vs. grub2

[Reindl Harald]

Am 13.02.2012 00:50, schrieb Alan Cox:
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:34:03 -0700
> Greg Woods <woods at ucar.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 20:18 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>> Greg Woods writes:
>>>
>>>> As has been mentioned in other threads, grub2 requires 2048 sectors at
>>>> the start of the disk
>>>
>>> Not exactly. This generally happens only with mdraid volumes. Without  
>>> mdraid, grub2 should fit within 63 sectors
>>
>> I do not have an mdraid on my laptop, and I still got the "embedded area
>> is too small" error when trying to run grub2-mkconfig. I was never able
>> to modify my grub2 configuration until I repartitioned the disk to
>> create a 2048 sector boot area.
> 
> I can confirm it happens anyway. But don't repartition - use a map file,
> and ask wtf Fedora didn't think to check if you wanted to do that anyway.

is there any documentation how to get GRUB2 from F16 running and
configured in a clean way over the long for machines with old
partition schemas and how the equivalent for

"grub-install /dev/sdd; grub-install /dev/sdc; grub-install /dev/sdb"

is to make all drives of software-raid bootable?

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