[Bug 491740] [NEW] grub-pc can not install on old drives, use grub instead

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Donnerstag, den 03.12.2009, 12:23 +0000 schrieb Launchpad Bug
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> I tried to install ubuntu 9.10 amd64 onto an old drive that has only
> 965632 bytes per cylinder and the system did not boot after the
> installation.
> When I tried to do "grub-install /dev/sda" (from Live CD), I got
> warning:
> Embedding area is too small for core.img
> 

Do you have more then one disk in your PC?
If blocklists have to be used (i.e. grub-install --force) then you must
install GRUB to the disk where your /boot/grub is on.
And then you need to check in your BIOS that it boots from that one.

I recently experienced this problem myself and we really should abort
with an error in grub-setup/grub-install if blocklists get used and you
install to a different disk then /boot/grub is on.

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer

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grub-pc can not install on old drives, use grub instead
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