-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/21/2013 11:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a > news item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review.
The "FAQ / Known Problems / Gotchas" section of the guide is still empty. Maybe fill this in before pushing this stable? My contribution: About half of our servers failed at the install phase with the error (copy/pasted from Google, might not be exact), /usr/sbin/grub2-install: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it. /usr/sbin/grub2-install: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged. /usr/sbin/grub2-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists. To paraphrase, "there ain't enough space before your first partition." Generally this means that you are screwed, and that you'll need to boot something like the gparted liveCD and resize all of your partitions. It would be nice to list some options on the page. If the user is lucky (thankfully, I was), his swap partition is the first partition on the disk. In that case, he can simply `swapoff` the thing, mangle it with fdisk, and then `mkswap foo` && `swapon foo`. The fdisk commands were, 1. 'x' - extra functionality (experts only) 2. 'b' - move beginning of data in a partition 3. '1' - Choose the first partition 4. '4096' - New beginning of data (1-8000369, default 63) Something smaller might work, but 4096 definitely does. Better play it safe in case grub3 wants to play HD video. For what it's worth, the following wiki pages both provided useful information (at the time, the g.o page didn't exist): * https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start * https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSPePgAAoJEBxJck0inpOiHBQQAKE81cZQeerYmu6FoFPrlPOv 78D5Bb2/mPj4camzaSwLk3xa1fkZIrjhgdCEqu3aeFKcpkktTUGikixcsODRcaRg 2sTTht44ZqqozBSE5t9gjKUg8zUJr9tu21vXT3JttEZut+FZfx1A/aGLIXyvUf/I GsCsRhwvmb8pp8iHgQ7NUNbFTVwE4+MxCdm3LDWrkvWy959Sj5t+f/HlpVrQRVPc 3jSw/OL1zug+4lK08VelfjDKkDJPbAfberJ3/oWv37D8x8PX93meHs7ZQAG9H15c 98+j6DaGddL8wQxX5ia/dSplfegGg+FBHXoYtkDRR+W6vq2fkpqD+dli9ugH51No 38HyySEpLvOnHrw4AbTSjoJ2HRYqI3TlX/+LpvUrLuxdvXP4c5vN+aNuIW+dbLAB 2PxtGEFh2OVFLaCR4oRje9eaC/cl6mq+csz6o7h0Vm5z5mbPplVrZf59RWJtyQZO sdtiHSmRCu4eTDQkTrbBe4ZsI7oZZulViiZRXKH/aF5SE45sPct15CHx9k9+WUql pfAtAlk7v1QLBqBngoD29lrEsKuh5oDnrtFeAkuLzGn+PN8Dx9T4lZy+pY3mBA4P 3JH6pmRV8caIQBBdNNJCWz+F9BZH4fkIo0TYkpNx0tj4DtDHcq/BWSlaPr09RxxZ T8fnJsRz/ybkH4SPDnd7 =Xm1p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
