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[Bug 515724] Re: [Lucid] Upgrade of grub-pc: "Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it."
Thanks for asking. Indeed I cannot.
Now that you ask I realize that I don't think I have seen that in a long
time - I think I did a fresh install on the same MacBook Pro 5,4 (same
HDD as well) with Oneiric around Beta time, later upgraded to Precise.
That was an Ubuntu-only install, and I don't think I saw the issue.
In any case just a few weeks ago I did a fresh install with 12.04.1. I
used the Desktop CD, amd64, BIOS version and followed the Ubuntu Mactel
wiki instructions to create a parallel install of OS X (also completely
new reinstall) and Ubuntu, using rEFIt. This was on a new HDD (Seagate
Momentum XT, 750 GB hybrid with 8 GB NAND SSD built in. This time I'm
sure I didn't see the problem.
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Title:
[Lucid] Upgrade of grub-pc: "Your embedding area is unusually small.
core.img won't fit in it."
Status in Mactel Support:
New
Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Binary package hint: grub2
Yesterday I installed Lucid on a MacBook Pro 5,4 (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro5-4/Lucid), using the snapshot disc image. I removed Mac OS X and converted the disk to MBR like described here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleIntelInstallation#Single-Boot:%20Ubuntu%20Only
The installation went totally fine.
Today I did an aptitude full-upgrade, which pulled in a new grub-
common and grub-pc. grub-pc generated this error:
Setting up grub-common (1.98~20100115-1ubuntu3) ...
Setting up grub-pc (1.98~20100115-1ubuntu3) ...
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it.
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and its use is discouraged.
Installation finished. No error reported.
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-12-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-12-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
done
I am now afraid to reboot.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 1 22:28:48 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100131)
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: grub-pc 1.98~20100115-1ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.16-generic
SourcePackage: grub2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic x86_64
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