On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 06:31:27PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:38:09AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Disk /dev/sda: 2250.1 GB, 2250128752640 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 273562 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk identifier: 0x00000000 > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sda1 1 267350 2147483647+ ee EFI GPT > > > > So I would say there is no requirement for a /boot partition. There might > > be a requirement for /boot to not be on LVM. Not sure. > > I probably haven't made myself clear enough. I was not talking about a > /boot partition, but about a GPT grub boot partition, or whatever grub > called it in its grub-setup failure message. One you give a bios_grub > flag. But then, maybe your core.img is small enough to fit in the 17.4kB > before the first partition. Here it doesn't. I made the boot partition > 128kB big because I didn't have a clue and found that to be enough in > most cases through a google search, though seeing the size of my current > core.img, 32 or 64kB would have been enough.
My core.img is 27KB. That's less than 63 sectors, so yes it would fit. Of course given the GPT uses space there too, I am not sure where it has put it. Hmm. Maybe it just used blocklist automatically when I installed it. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org