В Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:38:09 +0100 Ulf Zibis <[email protected]> пишет:
> Am 03.11.2012 16:58, schrieb Andrey Borzenkov: > >> No, I'm absolutely unsure. That's why I'm asking here on the list. > >> My question in little other words: How to dertermine, how many > >> bytes of the gap between MBR and 1st partition are used by GRUB 2, > >> so should not be deleted or shrinked or used otherwise > >> > > > > You could try findgrub > > http://www.unixversal.com/linux/openSUSE/findgrub-4.4.1.tgz and/or > > bootinfoscript > > (https://github.com/arvidjaar/bootinfoscript/blob/master/bootinfoscript > > - I point to my repo because SF variant did not work with GRUB2 we > > have here on openSUSE). Both scripts scan disks for bootloaders. > > Thanks! > Hm, it seems you are now getting unsure about your first answer: > "core.img is *the* part of grub which is installed in MBR gap" > core.img is the part that is installed in MBR gap, but it does not mean that it was this particular file. grub-install creates core.img in /boot/grub and embeds it in the same run, but it is also possible to directly use grub-mkimage -o /tmp/foo.img ... grub-bios-setup -c /tmp/foo.img ... You wanted to be absolutely safe and sure. The only way to be is to reinstall grub using grub-install. > Hopefully some developers are reading this thread. Maybe they could > implement a new option, reporting GRUB 2's size in the MBR gap. > Did you try any of script I mentioned? If they did not work we need to fix them. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
