Am 12.02.2012 02:18, schrieb Sam Varshavchik: > Greg Woods writes: > >> As has been mentioned in other threads, grub2 requires 2048 sectors at >> the start of the disk. If you were upgrading from a previous version, >> chances are your disk is not partitioned this way, but instead has only >> 63 sectors at the start of the disk. In this event, if you attempt to >> install grub2, or even just update its configuration, you get an >> "embedded area is too small" error. So I would guess you won't really be >> using grub2 until your disk has a large enough area for it. > > Not exactly. This generally happens only with mdraid volumes. Without mdraid, grub2 should > fit within 63 sectors, and one of my laptops was succesfully upgraded to F16+grub2, and > everything got squeezed into the 63 sectors. the main question here is: was this luck or is it sure most machines do not have linux-software-raid so if all of them have no problem with the old partition layout this all would be relaxed, but even if -> is this now so or will future versions of GRUB2 be broken with the old layout Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 1044224 522081 83 Linux this is a practical question because i have 20 virtual servers installed/cloned 2008 with the old layout, no RAID because this is provided by the SAN-STorage behind _____________________ my only two machines with RADI1/RAID10 combination were installed with F14 and have the boot partition starting at 2048, so all would be well Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 1026047 512000 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 1026048 31746047 15360000 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda3 31746048 3906971647 1937612800 fd Linux raid autodetect
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