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Re: poor error reporting from embed; stage1_5 size?
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
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Re: poor error reporting from embed; stage1_5 size? |
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Sat, 08 Dec 2001 08:07:43 +0900 |
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At 07 Dec 2001 16:37:39 -0500,
Eric Mumpower wrote:
> This error message is almost completely useless. If it's possible to improve
> it, that would be very useful. If not, it would be nice to mention this
> behavior somewhere in the GRUB documentation.
What message do you think is better? "No disk space" or something else?
> How many sectors should I leave free in order to always have enough space
> for a stage1_5 loader? (That is, what is the maximal size in sectors (or
> bytes) of a stage1_5 loader?)
We have been trying to keep ffs_stage1_5 less than 7168 bytes (14
sectors) and some others less than 31744 bytes (62 sectors). See the
test script "stage2/size_test", for more details.
The others (such as reiserfs_stage1_5) don't have any test, but they
should have the same or smaller limits.
Thanks,
Okuji