Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Arno Schuring <aelschuring@hotmail.com>]

John Hasler (jhasler@newsguy.com on 2012-01-14 12:25 -0600):
> Panayiotis writes:
> > I have another computer running Wheezy with lvm and it's working
> > fine. Maybe it's the sum of the md driver + lvm driver that is too
> > big to fit in the gap?
> 
> Use Lilo.  It doesn't use the "gap" at all.
That's true, LILO uses a blocklist IIRC.

>  IMHO putting critical
> boot software in an "unallocated" area that other software will (not
> unreasonably) assume contains nothing important is a loony idea.
It's not any more loony than hardcoding the disk sectors in which the
kernel file resides.


Regards,
Arno