On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 14:25 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2012, at 9:16 AM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > I did Fedora 16 Respin iso install with all latest packages, including > > latest Anaconda package, and still had this issue. > > > > There were two ntfs partitions (Windows 7 + data partition) and 30 GB > > of free space. > > > > From 30GB free space I created > > /root # 200 MB, ext4 > > /swap # 2.5 GB, swap > > / # 8.0 GB, ext4 > > /home # 19 GB, btrfs > > > > grub2 install fails miserably :( > > > > Are there any updates regarding this bug? > > I think the problem is GRUB2's own install script/app, doesn't do a great job > of accounting for disks partitioned where the 1st partition comes less than > 35KB after the MBR, and as the core.img is too large it fails to install > between the MBR and partition 1. > > Strangely though, anaconda manages to get it to install without a complaint.
No, that's clearly not the problem here, because this thread is about installing grub to the front of a partition - *not* to the MBR. I'm not sure why it's failing for Valent when it does usually manage to do this successfully, but it's definitely not the issue with the post-MBR 'embedding area' being too small. That's an entirely separate issue. anaconda only calls grub2-install, with appropriate parameters, to install grub. It doesn't do anything particularly special or clever. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
