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Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error

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Le 19/07/2017 à 20:54, Felix Miata a écrit :
> 
> On an old PATA disk, as you call IDE or hda, the partitioning scheme is very
> likely the cause of the failure to install to sda, as such schemes can more
> frequently than we'd like provide insufficient room on the boot track to fit
> Grub2's bloated loader code. Among such schemes, the one producing the largest
> boot track space via 255 head and 63 sector "cylinders", a bit over 30kb, is not
> always adequate. 240/63, another very common configuration, mostly used by
> laptops and Compaq desktops, obviously provides even less.

IME, 31 KiB is still enough to contain a core image when not needing 
costly features such as btrfs, LVM or RAID support.

Anyway, the Debian installer calls grub-install with the --force option 
so that if embedding in the post-MBR area is not possible, the core 
image will be stored as a regular file in /boot and accessed using block 
lists unless the filesystem does not support it. AFAIK, only btrfs is 
not supported with this setup, and a separate /boot is very unlikely to 
use btrfs.

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Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-07-19 18:20 +0200
  Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-07-19 18:50 +0200
  Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2017-07-19 18:50 +0200
    Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-07-19 19:00 +0200
      Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-07-19 19:40 +0200
        Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-07-19 20:30 +0200
      Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-19 20:20 +0200
      Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-19 21:00 +0200
        Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-20 00:50 +0200
          Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-20 02:00 +0200
            Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-20 23:00 +0200
            Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-07-21 03:00 +0200

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