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

[Miguel Landaeta]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom at shaw.ca> wrote:
> I'm not sure how to do that. I've run grub-mkimage and overwrote core.img
> which gets me to a 20KB file, and grub-install overwrites it with a larger
> 31KB file. Changing grub.cfg is impossible as update-grub overwrites that
> every time. I can't see a reliable way of configuring grub2.

Until you figure out how to configure grub2, you could use grub-mkimage to
regenerate your core image and use grub-setup to install the mbr on your disk.

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