Re: BIOS/GPT with bios_gub raw partition: core image is too big

[Andrei Borzenkov]

20.02.2021 01:37, Pascal Hambourg пишет:
> 
>> When I use grub-mkstandalone to generate the core.img
>> grub-mkstandalone -O i386-pc -o core.img --modules= ....
>>
>> I have : core image is too big (0x185161 > 0x78000)
>> Is it possible to "bypass" this size limitation or is it hardcoded in
>> i386-pc format even if the grub_bios raw partition exist ?
> 
> I do not think that the BIOS boot partition size is relevant to
> grub-mkstandalone. Check
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#Core-image-size-limitation>
> 
> I guess that somehow the core image must fit within the ~640 KB x86 real
> mode memory.

Correct. core.img must all fit in real mode memory on PC compatible system.

> But why do you want to use grub-mkstandalone instead of grub-install ?
>