Re: grub-setup: could not embedding core.img
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:39:35 +0100
Markus Neviadomski <lists@dieitexperten.de> wrote:
> Jack Schneider schrieb:On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:19:55 +0100
> Markus Neviadomski <lists@dieitexperten.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> after the apt-get upgrade yesterday my debian sid box doesnt boot,
> becaue of a broken grub2. Grub stops booting with the rescue-prompt
> and prints an error: symbol "grub_gettext" not found, similar to this
> bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558312
>
> Booting into the rescue from a debian cd and running update-grub
> (running perfect) and grub-install /dev/sda or grub-install/dev/sdb i
> got following error:
> /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Your core.img is unusually large. It won't
> fit in the embedding area.
> /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: Embedding is not possible, but this is
> required when the root device is on a RAID array or LVM volume.
> I found a debian bug, which is a little bit corresponding to this
> message, but this should resolved:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535316
>
> I have no idea...is this a new bug, an old bug or only a silly
> mistake? I purged the whole grub and reinstalled from rescue system
> and run ino the same problem.
>
> A short overview on my box:
> /dev/md0, contains /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 (working fine in recue
> mode) /dev/vg0/lvroot contains with all folders instead
> of /home, /temp and swap and is located on /dev/md0
>
> Installed kernels:
> linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64
> linux-image-2.6.31-1-amd64
>
>
> Hi, Markus
> I have had a similar problem since mid September, Developers are
> working on device-kit.
> Did you try both kernels? 2.6.30-1 works for me. You're an update
> ahead of me.. 2.6.30-2-amd64 definitely doesn't work for me...
> Mdadm & LVM2..
> Hi Jack,
>
> both kernels was running perfectly i thought. I dont now any
> possibility how to get to know, which packages exactly was updated
> yesterday on my box. How did you solved the problem for yourself? Or
> is the box unusable since sebtember? Do you have a bugtracking number
> for the devicekit package?
>
> Greetings Markus
>
>
> FWIW
>
> Jack
>
>
>
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Hi, Again!
Here's some that are involved:#550434, #550668, #550937, #551563.
But most feel this is the issue #545032. I don't know when it will get
to testing...
Have a great day!
Jack
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