[PVE-User] Latest grub updates in pve-no-subscription

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Sat Feb 14 08:30:57 CET 2015


Found this:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/174206/warning-file-system-ext2-doesnt-support-embedding-but-my-system-isnt-emb

Maybe you select a partition instead of the whole hard drive when grub asked
where to install?

You should usually select the whole disk to install into the MBR (or GPT grub
boot partition).

> On February 14, 2015 at 5:42 AM Lindsay Mathieson
> <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Latest updated update grub - it seems to have installed ok and the server
> rebooted 
> fine (3.10 kernel).
> 
> But I got this message while updating:
> 
> /Replacing config file /etc/default/grub with new version/
> /Installing for i386-pc platform./
> /Installation finished. No error reported./
> /Installing for i386-pc platform./
> */grub-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding./*
> */grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible.  GRUB can only be
> installed in 
> this setup by using blocklists.  However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their
> use is 
> discouraged../*
> /Installation finished. No error reported./
> 




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