Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr> wrote:
> On Saturday 14 January 2012 11:06:33 Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> I dont understand what you are saiing. From wikipedia here is the definition of
> mbr:
> A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector popularized by the IBM
> Personal Computer.[1] It consists of a sequence of 512 bytes located at the
> first sector of a data storage device such as a hard disk. MBRs are usually
> placed on storage devices intended for use with IBM PC-compatible systems
>
> So no wonder you can't put grub on 512 bytes. I would try, usind an install iso,
> to chroot into your system and reinstall grub.
The MBR's 512MB but there's usually (unless you format your disk to
skip it) a gap between the end of the MBR and the beginning of the
first partition into which grub1 and grub2 install a second stage boot
image.
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