Bug#494589: grub-setup fails with "error message = file not found"

[Edward Allcutt]

Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:53:27AM -0400, Edward Allcutt wrote:
>> [1] http://dev.teamgleim.com/~emallcut/grub2/grub-setup.log
> 
>> grub-setup: info: will leave the core image on the filesystem
> 
> The blocklist approach should still work, but it's not recommended.
I was actually unaware that grub2 was using a blocklist. I thought it 
always embedded the core image.

> I suggest you allow GRUB to embed core.img instead by adding a BIOS boot
> partitition using Parted.  We still need to trace down the problem with
> blocklists, but this will tell us whether the problem is related to this
> or something else.
I set the "boot" flag for /dev/sda1 using parted. I hope this is what 
you meant. grub-setup still fails with the same error and it still 
mentions "will leave the core image on the filesystem".

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Edward Allcutt