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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mactel Support, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/515724 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mactel-support/+bug/515724/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
