On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 19:57:57 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > 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?
My experience is that it says what it is (and works around it): # grub-install /dev/sda /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Sector 5 is already in use by ZISD; avoiding it. This software may cause boot or other problems in future. Please ask its authors not to store data in the boot track. Installation finished. No error reported. # Cheers, David.
