[bug #26954] grub-install on usb drive: "Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img"

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #26954 (project grub):

The "workaround mentality" comes from the fact that there are no clear
suggestions for how to resolve the problem.  The error message is fairly
opaque, even though i think i have a decent grasp of what's going on.

It sounds to me like you're saying that the right solution is to create a new
partition table on the device with different (better?) parameters.  This would
most likely destroy the data currently on the device, right?

I ended up taking this route, by creating a new partition table with 63
sectors per trac with a single VFAT partition on it:


 umount /dev/sdc1
 fdisk -S 63 /dev/sdc
   o
   n
   1

   t
   c
   w
 mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdc1

 
Could you suggest how to make a GPT with BIOS boot partition? Would i use
parted for that?

Could the grub-setup error message in this case be friendlier?

What about something like "You could provide more space for embedding by
changing your partitioning scheme, though this may put data on the drive in
question at risk (see parted(8), for example)" ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS_Boot_Partition_%28GPT%29 suggests that you
need parted 2.0 in order to make a BIOS Boot Partition, but
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/download.shtml suggests that version 1.9.0
is the latest stable version.

I don't see how to make a GPT with a BIOS Boot Partition, i'm afraid.

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