[Bug 1053793] [NEW] warning: this LDM has no Embedding Partition; embedding won't be possible

[Laurie Bradshaw]

Public bug reported:

Since grub 2.00-4ubuntu1 I've been getting:

/usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: warning: this LDM has no Embedding Partition; embedding won't be possible.
/usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for RAID and LVM install.

when trying to update grub, which results in an unbootable system, which
I've worked around by downgrading to grub 1.99-22ubuntu2 and running
grub-install /dev/sda

This system is a self-build that has never had windows on it.

$ fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 300.1 GB, 300069052416 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders, total 586072368 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8f83bc52

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 562628430 586067264 11719417+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 63 562628429 281314183+ 83 Linux

As suggested, attached are dumps of the first and last megabytes of
/dev/sda

** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  warning: this LDM has no Embedding Partition; embedding won't be
  possible

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Since grub 2.00-4ubuntu1 I've been getting:

  /usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: warning: this LDM has no Embedding Partition; embedding won't be possible.
  /usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for RAID and LVM install.

  when trying to update grub, which results in an unbootable system,
  which I've worked around by downgrading to grub 1.99-22ubuntu2 and
  running grub-install /dev/sda

  This system is a self-build that has never had windows on it.

  $ fdisk -l

  Disk /dev/sda: 300.1 GB, 300069052416 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders, total 586072368 sectors
  Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
  Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
  I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
  Disk identifier: 0x8f83bc52

     Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
  /dev/sda1 562628430 586067264 11719417+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
  /dev/sda2 * 63 562628429 281314183+ 83 Linux

  As suggested, attached are dumps of the first and last megabytes of
  /dev/sda

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