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From: Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis@gmx.de>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
Cc: help-grub@gnu.org, grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How many sectors for GRUB 2
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:38:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50954871.7000300@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121103195806.7d14a130@opensuse.site>

Am 03.11.2012 16:58, schrieb Andrey Borzenkov:
>> No, I'm absolutely unsure. That's why I'm asking here on the list. My
>> question in little other words: How to dertermine, how many bytes of
>> the gap between MBR and 1st partition are used by GRUB 2, so should
>> not be deleted or shrinked or used otherwise
>>
>
> You could try findgrub
> http://www.unixversal.com/linux/openSUSE/findgrub-4.4.1.tgz and/or
> bootinfoscript
> (https://github.com/arvidjaar/bootinfoscript/blob/master/bootinfoscript
> - I point to my repo because SF variant did not work with GRUB2 we
>    have here on openSUSE). Both scripts scan disks for bootloaders.

Thanks!
Hm, it seems you are now getting unsure about your first answer: "core.img is *the* part of grub 
which is installed in MBR gap"

Hopefully some developers are reading this thread. Maybe they could implement a new option, 
reporting GRUB 2's size in the MBR gap.

-Ulf
(Please CC: me in your answer, I'm not subscribed in this list)




       reply	other threads:[~2012-11-03 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]             ` <20121103195806.7d14a130@opensuse.site>
2012-11-03 16:38               ` Ulf Zibis [this message]
2012-11-03 17:05                 ` How many sectors for GRUB 2 Andrey Borzenkov
2012-11-03 22:37                   ` Ulf Zibis
2012-11-03 23:16                     ` Chris Murphy
2012-11-03 23:31                     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
     [not found]                     ` <20121104080219.562a0054@opensuse.site>
2012-11-04 13:39                       ` Ulf Zibis
2012-11-04 13:56                         ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2012-11-05  5:57                         ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)

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