Colin, I was one of the contributing authors of that wiki
There are some issues that are specific to the Mac Hybrid system that converting to the MBR format allows, such as being able to boot from partitions beyond #4. I'd say that was the major reason for doing so. I think a lot of the issues that were really cumbersome with GPT are not that big of a deal anymore, and the use of grub2 may solve them all anyway. Either way, it is old, and probably outdated info. It is, of course, and open wiki and you contribution is helpful. -- [Lucid] Upgrade of grub-pc: "Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it." https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/515724 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mactel Support, which is a direct subscriber. 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 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
