On Tue, January 24, 2012 12:07 pm, Chris Caudle wrote: > The bootloader was not installed properly during a F15->F16 > upgrade, so I'm hoping someone on this list can point me in > the correct direction to recover. I have more detailed error information now, and I'm pretty sure I figured out what is going on. Using grub2-install from the rescue disk, I got this error: "Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it. embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install" Went through the GRUB documentation, and found this in the section on the various modules: "The GRUB development team generally recommends embedding GRUB before the first partition, unless you have special requirements. You must ensure that the first partition starts at least 31 KiB (63 sectors) from the start of the disk; " Used fdisk to look at the partition table, and the first partition starts at sector 32, but the docs clearly say the first partition must start at 63 or later. So I'm currently running GPartEd from a live disk to shift the partition on the first drive, then I'll run grub2-install again, which should have enough space now. I'm fairly confident that will get the Fedora install running again. May have to do some repairs on the Windows partition bootloader, depending on whether there were any pointers set at install time to a particular sector, or whether it just starts from the beginning of the partition. It appears that using one large disk with multiple partitions probably wouldn't hit this problem, but having a separate disk for the Windows installation and the Fedora installation, along with having the first partition on the Windows disk start unusually close to the beginning of the disk is what caused problems on this particular system. There were a couple of suggestions that my boot partition needed to be significantly larger, but from what I can tell that is only needed to use preupgrade for upgrading a system. The grub2 files only take about 2MB, and each kernel image still just takes about 25MB, so there should not be anything in normal use which needs multi hundreds of MB on /boot. -- Chris Caudle -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
