Re: GRUB2: stage 1.5

[Isaac Dupree]

On 08/18/10 06:28, Muhammad Ammar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> In GRUB 2, stage 1.5 is eliminated, so way i am getting the following error
> during installing the GRUB2:
>
> grub-setup: warn: your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit
> in it

Well, there basically is still a stage 1.5 in the sense that GRUB needs 
to embed some code in a stable (non-filesystem) location on disk.

In GRUB Legacy, Stage 1.5 was its own piece of code separate from Stage 
2.  GRUB 2 has a modular design, in which the embedding ("stage 1.5") is 
created with some of these modules -- sufficient modules to load the 
rest of the modules from one of your filesystems (the rest of the 
modules corresponds to "stage 2").  It's a better design -- but there 
was no way that it could eliminate the need for embedding on BIOS 
platforms (i.e. most consumer laptops/desktops -- GRUB Legacy supported 
only BIOS platforms, GRUB 2 supports some others also,each of which is 
different).

-Isaac