Re: grub "Error 3" and small partitions

[Pavel Cahyna <pavel%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:03:35PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:57:52AM -0600, david l goodrich wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:53:20AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 06:32:42PM -0600, david l goodrich wrote:
> > > >
> > > > / is on a raid mirror, is 2GB in size, and has block and fragment 
> > > > sizes of 8k and 1k respectively.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure 2GB is small enough. I always to / 512MB or smaller.
> > 
> > Well, okay.  I guess i'll try smaller.  2G was sufficient in the
> > past, though:
> 
> Yes, and I also got it working once on a 128GB partition. It depends on
> where the file is located in the partition.

It depends on whether the file is compressed or not. Gzipped kernels
sometimes trigger this bug.

Pavel