Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error
Date	2017-07-21 03:00 +0200
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On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 19:57:57 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
> Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-07-20 0:40 (UTC+0200):
> 
> > Felix Miata composed:
> 
> >> ...is not
> >> always adequate. 240/63, another very common configuration...
> 
> > IME, 31 KiB is still enough to contain a core image when not needing 
> > costly features such as btrfs, LVM or RAID support.
> 
> That's what "not always adequate" means. Partitioning with less than 63 SPT
> isn't all that unusual on old PATA disks either. And, sometimes those old
> configurations have other things using the boot track. Maybe Grub2's installer
> rejects using that space if it's not empty of recognizable content?

My experience is that it says what it is (and works around it):

# grub-install /dev/sda
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Sector 5 is already in use by ZISD; avoiding it.
This software may cause boot or other problems in future.
Please ask its authors not to store data in the boot track.
Installation finished. No error reported.
# 

Cheers,
David.

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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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