Re: [RFC PATCH] Sector 2 of non-embedded core.img: write early or patch later?

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 08:44:28PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> >On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:23:24PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> >>This also relates to problem with installing to MBR and there is no room 
> >>for embedding core.img there. I have been using USB stick where there is 
> >>not enough room for core.img what I want to store there. So only option 
> >>is to leave core.img to filesystem and install MBR.
> >
> >But then you can add an empty partition (type 0x00) starting at sector 63,
> >and grub-setup will overwrite it.
> >
> >Or you could leave that region unpartitioned.
> 
> At least on my disks there is 32 KiB free space.

Typically they're 32 kiB - 512 B (because most tools reserve that space
for some legacy restriction that no longer exists ;-)).

> But not ~50 KiB what my 
> core.img requires.

What do you put in your core?

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Robert Millan

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