Bug#650113: core.img has grown too much?

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.99-14
Severity: important

Upgrading grub-pc gives the following error:

/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small.  core.img won't fit in it..
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required when the root device is on a RAID array or LVM volume.


My disks are still partitioned with the old alignment to CHS so there
embedding area is small. But not unusually so:

mrvn at frosties:~% ls -l /boot/grub/core.img 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31519 Nov 26 18:14 /boot/grub/core.img

root at frosties:~# sfdisk -d /dev/sda
# partition table of /dev/sda
unit: sectors

/dev/sda1 : start=       63, size=2930272002, Id=fd, bootable
/dev/sda2 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
/dev/sda3 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
/dev/sda4 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
root at frosties:~# sfdisk -d /dev/sdb
# partition table of /dev/sdb
unit: sectors

/dev/sdb1 : start=       63, size=2930272002, Id=fd, bootable
/dev/sdb2 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
/dev/sdb3 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
/dev/sdb4 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
root at frosties:~# sfdisk -d /dev/sdc
# partition table of /dev/sdc
unit: sectors

/dev/sdc1 : start=       63, size=2930272002, Id=83, bootable
/dev/sdc2 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
/dev/sdc3 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
/dev/sdc4 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0

The older grub-pc package had no problem fitting so I must assume
core.img has grown and now doesn't fit anymore. This will cause
problems for many older systems on upgrade.

MfG
	Goswin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-rc7-xen-1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.41     
ii  grub-common            1.99-14    
ii  grub-pc-bin            1.99-14    
ii  grub2-common           1.99-14    
ii  ucf                    3.0025+nmu2

grub-pc recommends no packages.

grub-pc suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/grub changed [not included]

-- debconf information excluded