From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Antonio Perez Subject: Re: Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:57:52 -0400 Message-ID: <5088676.PTlYT5Mo9Q@rnqqfki.eternal-september.org> References: <600349.38000.qm@web88207.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <4877c76c1001061221w582efcfdudc9a33c0f74a756a@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: ap23563m@gmx.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Michael Evans wrote: [...] > Grub wants to embed (copy it's executable) in to the area between the > MBR style layout (sector 0 of a drive) and the first partition on that > drive (typically starts as early as sector 63). Try starting the > first partition at something like a 1 or 2 mb offset from the start of > the drive. That should likely be enough space. ...something like a 1 or 2 mb offset... Grub-core is about 26k, anything bigger than 30k should be enough, right? -- Antonio Perez