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

[Joel Soete]

I finally get confirmation I was looking for at 
<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2#MBR_aka_msdos_partitioning_specific_instructions> and mentioned link 
<https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24103>.

So I manage to increase this space to 2Mb then the installation of the release grub-pc_1.99-14 (and dependencies) is now 
successful :)



On 02/11/2012 09:43 PM, Joel Soete wrote:
> 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
>>
>