Bug#627630: grub-pc: core.img too large after recent update, raid1+lvm+xfs

[Luca Tettamanti]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.99-15
Followup-For: Bug #627630

I just ran into the same issue upgrading from 1.99-14 to 1.99-15.
The list of the modules loaded is minimal:

/usr/bin/grub-mkimage -d /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc -O i386-pc --output=/boot/grub/core.img --prefix=(,msdos5)/grub biosdisk ext2 part_msdos

grub modules resides in a separate partition:

/dev/sda5 /boot ext3 rw,noatime,errors=continue,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0

AFAICS there's no way to resolve the problem without repartitioning the
disk to move the first partition.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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            1.99-15
ii  grub-pc-bin            1.99-15
ii  grub2-common           1.99-15
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