Bug 785376 - mdraid grub2 core image unusually large: Unable to boot
Summary: mdraid grub2 core image unusually large: Unable to boot
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 782144
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub2
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
urgent
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Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-01-28 12:43 UTC by Serge Droz
Modified: 2012-04-16 23:31 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-04-16 23:31:18 UTC
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Description Serge Droz 2012-01-28 12:43:04 UTC 
Description of problem:

This is a system running mdraid. 

After upgrading to the latest kernel (3.2.2-1 ) and rebooting there was not grub2 menu. Booting into rescue mode and trying to install grub again
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg 
grub2-install /dev/sda 
I got the following warning:
warn: your core.img is unusually large, it won't fit in the
embedding area..

This may be related to Bug 737508. Comment 42 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737508#c42) inspired me to downgrade to grub2-1.99-12 which allowed an install.

My first partition is Windows, and I thus can't delete and recreate it. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grub-1.99-13
kernel-3.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64


PS: Fedora support for this raid setup ha been a huge disappointment since about two releases. 

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Actual results:
Unable to boot

Expected results:
Boot

Additional info:
Comment 1 Milan Kerslager 2012-03-20 10:03:31 UTC 
The bug #782144 solves the problem for me.
Comment 2 Mads Kiilerich 2012-04-16 23:31:18 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 782144 ***
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