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

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 06:03:55PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 21.08.2009, 12:29 +0200 schrieb 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?
> 
> No because it's not a requirement. It's just recommended. 
> And as I already wrote any normal partitioning tool makes partitions
> starting at sector 63 not 1
> I think sfdisk is more for the advanced people.

Even cfdisk creates partitions starting at sector I when one used the
"Maximize" command which is rather prominent.

Greetings
Marc

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