Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record
On 01/14/2012 12:31 PM, tv.debian@googlemail.com wrote:
> 14/01/2012 11:06, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some
>> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I
>> am alarmed.
>>
>> One of the packages was grub2 which was at version
>> 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14.
>>
>> To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub
>> refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly,
>> but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could
>> not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use
>> blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable.
>>
>> What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new computer.
>>
>
> Hi, can you provide a "fdisk -lu" output from the disk you are
> installing grub to ? Is this a gpt or standard msdos disklabel ?
Hi, thanks. I do not now what is gpt or standard msdos disklabel!
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004e418
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 1953520064 976760001 fd Linux raid
autodetect
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Best regards,
Panayiotis Karabassis
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