Am 13.02.2012 00:50, schrieb Alan Cox: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:34:03 -0700 > Greg Woods <woods@xxxxxxxx> 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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