Bug#561294: core.img is unusually large, grub-pc fails to install grub mbr

[Markus Neviadomski]

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Am 17.12.2009 21:16, schrieb Miguel Landaeta:
> There are 32.5 kilobytes before the start of the first partition
> on a disk.  So, you better repartition your disk to begin on the
> second cylinder or beyond there and you will gain more space to
> store your grub2 core.img there, OR the grub people find a way to
> compress the core.img in that tiny space at the beginning of the
> disk.

I know this difference. But, in my opinion, the resize should only be a
stupid workaround for a single box.

Ive parted my system with the debian installer for i think 4 months.
Grub2 worked fine until the upgrade on Dezember 1.

- - If this is the only good solution, the parted app may start the first
partition at the second cylinder by default.
- - Or, the better idea, grub should reduce the size of its driver modules.
- - Or third idea, posted by thomas, is to remove the raid module if it is
possible.

> 
> In order to setup full disk encryption with grub2 (grub2+luks+lvm2),
> I had to partition my boot disk in that way (my first partition
> begins at the second cylinder). BTW, in the beginning of the
> following howto (http://tech.xerces.com/full-system-encryption-for-linux.geek)
> there is a brief comment about this problem.
> 

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