On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Thierry Chatelet <tchate...@free.fr> wrote: > On Saturday 14 January 2012 11:06:33 Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >> >> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some >> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I >> am alarmed. >> >> One of the packages was grub2 which was at version >> 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14. >> >> To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub >> refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly, >> but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could >> not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use >> blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable. >> >> What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new computer. > > I dont understand what you are saiing. From wikipedia here is the definition > of > mbr: > A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector popularized by the IBM > Personal Computer.[1] It consists of a sequence of 512 bytes located at the > first sector of a data storage device such as a hard disk. MBRs are usually > placed on storage devices intended for use with IBM PC-compatible systems > > So no wonder you can't put grub on 512 bytes. I would try, usind an install > iso, > to chroot into your system and reinstall grub.
The MBR's 512MB but there's usually (unless you format your disk to skip it) a gap between the end of the MBR and the beginning of the first partition into which grub1 and grub2 install a second stage boot image. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=Sx4yAmM5q8i2rLZ2RsQQY88viDKM=qnfenv528fy50...@mail.gmail.com
