Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-07-20 0:40 (UTC+0200): > Felix Miata composed:
>> ...is not >> always adequate. 240/63, another very common configuration... > IME, 31 KiB is still enough to contain a core image when not needing > costly features such as btrfs, LVM or RAID support. That's what "not always adequate" means. Partitioning with less than 63 SPT isn't all that unusual on old PATA disks either. And, sometimes those old configurations have other things using the boot track. Maybe Grub2's installer rejects using that space if it's not empty of recognizable content? > Anyway, the Debian installer calls grub-install with the --force option > so that if embedding in the post-MBR area is not possible, the core > image will be stored as a regular file in /boot and accessed using block > lists unless the filesystem does not support it. AFAIK, only btrfs is > not supported with this setup, and a separate /boot is very unlikely to > use btrfs. XFS has not the same limitation as BTRFS? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
