Bug#542424: grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible.

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:16:15AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 22:57 +0200 schrieb Marc Haber:
> > So sfdisk is essentially incompatible to grub 2?
> 
> Just make sure the first partition starts at sector 63 like any normal
> partioning tool does.

Is this requirement documented anywhere in the vast amount of
up-to-date documentation that is available for grub 2?

> > > grub-legacy should tell you too that it can't embed stage1.5 just not
> > > that visible.
> > 
> > It has however never shown any unreliability in years on hundreds of
> > hosts. grub 2 says it won't function properly.
> 
> With grub-legacy it's exactly the same.
> We just decided to make it more clear in grub2 that blocklists aren't
> that great.

This is like actively scaring off people. Blocklists work just fine in
years of hundreds of hosts. You're spreading a lot of FUD.

Actually, Blocklists even have some (small) advantages over embedding.

Greetings
Marc

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