On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 14:14 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 09:40 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > > That's what I used to do, but it didn't work for me with F16 and GRUB2. > > > I get a warning that I shouldn't install GRUB2 to a partition and then > > > an error about there not being enough space. > > > > You can use --force to make grub2 install to a partition. > > If I run "grub2-install /dev/sda6", I get: > > /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partitionless disk or to a partition. This is a BAD idea.. > /sbin/grub2-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install. > > --force makes no difference. > > /dev/sda6 is actually part of a software RAID1; "grub2-install /dev/md3" > segfaults. Somebody else has already put this in BZ as 788830. Yep, sounds like the RAID thing is your issue, not the install-to-partition thing. I'm not sure if grub2 is actually capable of being written to the first sector of a RAID device at all. pjones may know. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
