Hi
I have recently done a fresh install of Fedora 16. My machine has 2 1TB
SATA drives, and came with Windows 7 installed on the 1st drive. I then
partitioned the second drive into several partitions; one for /boot, one
for /opt, one for /usr/local, 2 for /, and one for /home. I keep the
current version on one of the / partitions, and can install a new
version of the second. Rather than overwriting the MBR on the first
drive, I changed the BIOS to boot from the second drive, and had grub
installed there. When I installed F16 and it came to where it wanted to
install grub2, it gave me the options of installing on the MBR of
/dev/sda, or installing in /boot. Not being sure which drive it was
calling /dev/sda, I had it install on the /boot partition. That left me
with still booting using grub. I have now modified grub.conf to
chain-load grub2, and can boot where ever I want from there. I would
like to now install grub2 to the MBR of /dev/sdb to eliminate the grub
step. I run the following command and get the error following:
#grub2-install /dev/sdb
/sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small.
core.img won't fit in it..
/sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be
installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are
UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
/sbin/grub2-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
Sorry for the line wrap, the above is 4 lines. Below is some information
about my machine. If anything else is needed, I will try to supply it.
uname -a
Linux morgoth.localdomain 3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 3 19:45:05
UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb9 49G 16G 31G 35% /
/dev/sda2 11G 6.5G 4.2G 61% /media/RECOVERY
/dev/sda3 921G 373G 549G 41% /media/OS
/dev/sdb1 98G 8.1G 90G 9% /media/DATAPART1
/dev/sdb5 49G 27G 20G 59% /opt
/dev/sdb6 49G 482M 46G 2% /usr/local
/dev/sdb3 487M 128M 334M 28% /boot
/dev/sdb10 518G 22G 470G 5% /home
/dev/sdb7 97G 188M 92G 1% /tmp
/dev/sdb8 49G 18G 29G 38% /media/ROOTA
/dev/sdg1 466G 440G 27G 95% /media/FreeAgentDrive
mount | grep /dev/sd
/dev/sdb9 on / type ext4
(rw,relatime,seclabel,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/sda2 on /media/RECOVERY type fuseblk
(rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda3 on /media/OS type fuseblk
(rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/DATAPART1 type fuseblk
(rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdb5 on /opt type ext4
(rw,relatime,seclabel,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/sdb6 on /usr/local type ext4
(rw,relatime,seclabel,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/sdb3 on /boot type ext4
(rw,relatime,seclabel,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/sdb10 on /home type ext4
(rw,relatime,seclabel,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/sdb7 on /tmp type ext4
(rw,relatime,seclabel,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/sdb8 on /media/ROOTA type ext4
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sdg1 on /media/FreeAgentDrive type fuseblk
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)
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Lester M Petrie
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