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

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 06:19:39PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> 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
>
> core.img isn't static; it depends on your system.  What modules are
> built into core.img in your case?  There's unfortunately no way to
> interrogate an existing image that I know of, but if you figure out the
> appropriate grub-install command and then run this:
>
>   grub-install --debug $wherever_grub_should_be_installed 2>&1 | grep grub-mkimage
>
> ... then that should tell you.
>
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]

+ /usr/bin/grub-mkimage -d /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc -O i386-pc --output=/boot/grub/core.img --prefix=(r-root)/boot/grub biosdisk ext2 part_msdos raid mdraid09 lvm

MfG
        Goswin