Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error
On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 19:57:57 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
> Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-07-20 0:40 (UTC+0200):
>
> > Felix Miata composed:
>
> >> ...is not
> >> always adequate. 240/63, another very common configuration...
>
> > IME, 31 KiB is still enough to contain a core image when not needing
> > costly features such as btrfs, LVM or RAID support.
>
> That's what "not always adequate" means. Partitioning with less than 63 SPT
> isn't all that unusual on old PATA disks either. And, sometimes those old
> configurations have other things using the boot track. Maybe Grub2's installer
> rejects using that space if it's not empty of recognizable content?
My experience is that it says what it is (and works around it):
# grub-install /dev/sda
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Sector 5 is already in use by ZISD; avoiding it.
This software may cause boot or other problems in future.
Please ask its authors not to store data in the boot track.
Installation finished. No error reported.
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Cheers,
David.
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