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Re: How many sectors for GRUB 2
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Chris Murphy |
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Re: How many sectors for GRUB 2 |
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Sun, 4 Nov 2012 00:16:56 +0100 |
On Nov 3, 2012, at 11:37 PM, Ulf Zibis <address@hidden> wrote:
> You mean, after I would have shrinked th MBR gap?
> That's the problem!
> What will happen, if the gap is too small?
> For that reason I *before* wanted to know how much space is needed.
All modern partitioners set the first partition to sector 2048, and for 512
byte sectors that's 1MB. Since the MBR consumes LBA 0, which is 512 bytes,
core.img can be as large as 1048064 bytes.
If the gap is too small, then core.img can't be embedded in the space.
Installation fails.
Chris Murphy
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- Re: How many sectors for GRUB 2, Ulf Zibis, 2012/11/03
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- Re: How many sectors for GRUB 2, Ulf Zibis, 2012/11/04
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