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

["Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>]

Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 05:24:59PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> We have a serious problem with installing onto partitions (e.g.
>> grub-install /dev/sda1) and drives with geometry that doesn't leave
>> enough space for core.img to be embedded before the first partition.
>> While it's not a desirable configuration, it should work, but it
>> doesn't.
> 
> Do we really want to support this?  I don't think there's any reliable way
> to tell where filesystem metadata starts.  So unless we're talking about a
> dedicated partition, this sounds like a no-go.

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.