Re: How many sectors for GRUB 2

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:56:56 +0100
Ulf Zibis <address@hidden> пишет:

> Am 03.11.2012 10:20, schrieb Andrey Borzenkov:
> > В Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:56:34 +0100
> > Ulf Zibis <address@hidden> пишет:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> how many sectors are needed for GRUB 2 in the hidden sectors after
> >> the MBR and before the 1st partition.
> > core.img is built on the fly depending on your system environment so
> > it is impossible to give ultimate number. It contains everything
> > needed to access /boot/grub. I have /boot on plain HDD (no RAID, no
> > LVM, etc) as ext2 and size of core.img is 26401 bytes.
> 
> Hi, thanks for your answer!
> 
> core.img is in the filesystem at /boot/grub/ (at me also ~26 kB) in
> my linux partition. But I'm asking for the part of grub, which is not
> in the filesystem, outside the partition.
> 

core.img is *the* part of grub which is installed in MBR gap. Besides
boot sector itself of course.