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On 09/21/2013 11:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a |
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> news item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review. |
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The "FAQ / Known Problems / Gotchas" section of the guide is still |
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empty. Maybe fill this in before pushing this stable? |
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My contribution: |
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About half of our servers failed at the install phase with the error |
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(copy/pasted from Google, might not be exact), |
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/usr/sbin/grub2-install: warn: Your embedding area is unusually |
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small. core.img won't fit in it. |
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/usr/sbin/grub2-install: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can |
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only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, |
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blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged. |
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/usr/sbin/grub2-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists. |
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To paraphrase, "there ain't enough space before your first partition." |
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Generally this means that you are screwed, and that you'll need to |
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boot something like the gparted liveCD and resize all of your |
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partitions. It would be nice to list some options on the page. |
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If the user is lucky (thankfully, I was), his swap partition is the |
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first partition on the disk. In that case, he can simply `swapoff` the |
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thing, mangle it with fdisk, and then `mkswap foo` && `swapon foo`. |
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The fdisk commands were, |
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1. 'x' - extra functionality (experts only) |
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2. 'b' - move beginning of data in a partition |
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3. '1' - Choose the first partition |
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4. '4096' - New beginning of data (1-8000369, default 63) |
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Something smaller might work, but 4096 definitely does. Better play it |
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safe in case grub3 wants to play HD video. |
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For what it's worth, the following wiki pages both provided useful |
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information (at the time, the g.o page didn't exist): |
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* https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start |
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* https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 |
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