From: "Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Sector 2 of non-embedded core.img: write early or patch later?
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:44:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4867C9FC.7000903@nic.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080629173822.GB1982@thorin>
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. But not ~50 KiB what my
core.img requires.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-29 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-27 21:24 [RFC PATCH] Sector 2 of non-embedded core.img: write early or patch later? Pavel Roskin
2008-06-28 4:46 ` Bean
2008-06-28 4:58 ` Bean
2008-06-30 22:43 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-28 9:09 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-06-29 11:29 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-29 13:23 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-06-29 17:38 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-29 17:44 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen [this message]
2008-06-29 21:10 ` Robert Millan
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