Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-15 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:24:40 -0500 (EST), Arno Schuring wrote: >> John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com on 2012-01-14 12:25 -0600): >>> >>> IMHO putting critical >>> boot software in an "unallocated" area that other software will (not >>> unreaso

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:24:40 -0500 (EST), Arno Schuring wrote: > John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com on 2012-01-14 12:25 -0600): >> IMHO putting critical >> boot software in an "unallocated" area that other software will (not >> unreasonably) assume contains nothing important is a loony idea. > > It'

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-15 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > IMHO putting critical boot software in an "unallocated" area that > other software will (not unreasonably) assume contains nothing > important is a loony idea. Arno Schuring writes: > It's not any more loony than hardcoding the disk sectors in which the > kernel file resides. Like Gru

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-15 Thread Arno Schuring
John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com on 2012-01-14 12:25 -0600): > Panayiotis writes: > > I have another computer running Wheezy with lvm and it's working > > fine. Maybe it's the sum of the md driver + lvm driver that is too > > big to fit in the gap? > > Use Lilo. It doesn't use the "gap" at all. T

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Weaver
> Panayiotis writes: >> I have another computer running Wheezy with lvm and it's working fine. >> Maybe it's the sum of the md driver + lvm driver that is too big to >> fit in the gap? > > Use Lilo. It doesn't use the "gap" at all. IMHO putting critical boot > software in an "unallocated" area t

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread John Hasler
Panayiotis writes: > I have another computer running Wheezy with lvm and it's working fine. > Maybe it's the sum of the md driver + lvm driver that is too big to > fit in the gap? Use Lilo. It doesn't use the "gap" at all. IMHO putting critical boot software in an "unallocated" area that other s

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Panayiotis
On Σαβ, 2012-01-14 at 16:23 +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > 14/01/2012 15:21, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > Thanks to all. > > > > On 01/14/2012 03:06 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > >> 14/01/2012 13:18, Tom H: > >>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis > >>> Karabassis w

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
I did that once on an install and figured out what I did wrong too. This wasn't with debian though but with slackware. What I did was to allocate too little swap space in my swap partition. If you manually chose the amount of swap space you'll need to increase that amount then the problem go

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
14/01/2012 15:21, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Thanks to all. On 01/14/2012 03:06 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: 14/01/2012 13:18, Tom H: On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some packages to their Wh

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:21:15 -0500 (EST), Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > Can Lilo boot from an LVM partition sitting on top of mdadm? Ah! Well, that's a horse of a different color, as the old saying goes. I honestly don't know. There is information in the man pages for lilo and lilo.conf conc

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 01/14/2012 03:46 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:06:33 -0500 (EST), Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >> >> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some >> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I >> am alarmed. >> >> One of the p

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Thanks to all. On 01/14/2012 03:06 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > 14/01/2012 13:18, Tom H: >> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis >> Karabassis wrote: >>> >>> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some >>> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:06:33 -0500 (EST), Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some > packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I > am alarmed. > > One of the packages was grub2 which was at version > 1.98+201008

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
14/01/2012 13:18, Tom H: On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I am alarmed. One of the packages was grub2 which was at version 1.98+

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Saturday 14 January 2012 11:06:33 Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >> >> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some >> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I >> am alarmed. >> >> One o

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > /dev/sda1              63  1953520064   976760001   fd  Linux raid > autodetect The post-MBR gap's OK. How large is "core.img"? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some > packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I > am alarmed. > > One of the packages was grub2 which was at version > 1.98+20100804-14+sque

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 14 January 2012 11:06:33 Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Hi, > > On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some > packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I > am alarmed. > > One of the packages was grub2 which was at version > 1.98+20100

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 01/14/2012 12:31 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > 14/01/2012 11:06, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some >> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I >> am alarmed. >> >> One of the packages

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
14/01/2012 11:06, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Hi, On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I am alarmed. One of the packages was grub2 which was at version 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded

Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Hi, On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I am alarmed. One of the packages was grub2 which was at version 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14. To cut a long story short, I ended w