On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 19:48 -0500, sean darcy wrote: > grub2-install --no-floppy /dev/sdg > /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. > > What do I do now! Embedding area??? This is the area at the beginning of the disk, before the first partition. Grub2 needs the first partition to start at 2048, but default partition layouts from Grub-1 systems start at 63. I have run into this several times and it is a royal pain. There may be some games you can play with gparted (shrink the partition, then move it), or you can do like I did, which is to dump the first partition, change it to start at 2048 (shrinking it a bit), making a new file system on the new partition, and restoring it. --Greg -- 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
