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

[Daejuan Jacobs]

It's a warning so you can ignore it. But as Diemtar said, it's because you
didn't install Grub on the MBR. From the Grub2 info pages "The GRUB
development team generally recommends embedding GRUB before
the first partition"

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:30 AM, Dietmar Maurer <dietmar at proxmox.com> wrote:

> 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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