From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KFsHk-0005YV-Iz for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:05:48 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KFsHj-0005YM-1l for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:05:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KFsHg-0005XD-A8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:05:46 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52499 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KFsHg-0005XA-6Z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:05:44 -0400 Received: from ag-out-0708.google.com ([72.14.246.243]:63080) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KFsHf-0000dJ-I3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:05:43 -0400 Received: by ag-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id 31so13685598agc.10 for ; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:05:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=BoFwYsaQuRyP+JvbQdnoNy2dP+deHuIraTsiQNUwVJE=; b=t7tOfj6LKXERCUskiwZTGo3H9GGF6kSZ1z9j/cPCCXXNYeDS8r2VjoRhpjsevZQjqy 3257kqECPlKADCTiPQy6dBlz7dkT5zxdb2pr4T+N8LBnKUXK8Zw+WpCSYDgWWoBM0HVn I+/+R0yh3mz6ytJAH8SU6yswbKiiXNKg0rYs0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=FHMOmUaleER1iNNUPaTd9pYsz8X1k7z1OAtMrg5P2a+cYgxMxD9k5Xw4PUkx3vIw1V UUMRjrnCZ51/hDRdqtGxC86SHenIvc/ya14MefyiIuZBbwFNjJUEiBwf37QFDOD53NC9 NzlCa2dvkbdbKoOXbaUUCW4xI3HcSKxE1ZNNs= Received: by 10.110.11.1 with SMTP id 1mr2659100tik.2.1215443133857; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:05:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.110.16.5 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 08:05:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 23:05:33 +0800 From: Bean To: "The development of GRUB 2" In-Reply-To: <1215442222.3238.157.camel@sycorax> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <1215442222.3238.157.camel@sycorax> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Still unable to install grub 2 on my lvm setup X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:05:47 -0000 On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Jean-Christophe Haessig wrote: > Hello, > > I'm still trying to build and use the latest GRUB cvs version when there > seems to be some movement in the LVM field. There was a thread in the ML > three weeks ago and I tried it again, but I still get the same errors as > I got, back in January. > > The system can be booted with a floppy where the latest GRUB was > installed, but the same version is unable to install itself on the hard > drive. It tries to =ABembed=BB the =ABcore.img=BB because the root is on = LVM, > but reports that there is not enough space to do this. > > I'm still puzzled about where GRUB wants to embed this image (after the > boot sector, it seems), but looking at the LVM structures it doesn't > seem to be any room there... Last January I couldn't get a clear answer > about this, neither if what I'm trying to do is even supported. Hi, You need to use the lzma patch, which reduces the size of core.img. --=20 Bean