Bug#630226: Re: Bug#630226: grub-pc_1.99-6_amd64.deb failed to upgrade while not grub-pc_1.99-6_i386.deb?

[Joel Soete]

Hello φ-coder,

Sorry for so late reaction, but I would like to be sure that I well understand.

# fdisk  /dev/sda

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 300.1 GB, 300067970560 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders, total 586070255 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00066cce

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63      996029      497983+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2          996030   586070254   292537112+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5          996093   149002874    74003391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda6       149002938   299001779    74999421   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda7       299001843   449000684    74999421   8e  Linux LVM
/dev/sda8       449000748   586070254    68534753+  8e  Linux LVM

shows me the start of the first slice (sda1) at 63 sectors (aparently the default of cfdisk).

Which leaves a gap of only 32k free for grub2 to install its core and required modules and it is not any more enough since 
1.99 release (the F manual recommends at least 1Mb).

So all I would have to do is to manage to increase this free space (gap) to 1Mb (2048 sectors) to fix the problem?

Thanks in advance for further help,
	J.

On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On 18.10.2011 22:39, Todd Charron wrote:
>> Any news here?
>>
> RTFM
> www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/BIOS-installation.html#BIOS-installation
>