Re: [RFC PATCH] Sector 2 of non-embedded core.img: write early or patch later?

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:23:24PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> > This also relates to problem with installing to MBR and there is no room 
> > for embedding core.img there. I have been using USB stick where there is 
> > not enough room for core.img what I want to store there. So only option 
> > is to leave core.img to filesystem and install MBR.
>
> But then you can add an empty partition (type 0x00) starting at sector 63,
> and grub-setup will overwrite it.
>
> Or you could leave that region unpartitioned.

At least on my disks there is 32 KiB free space. But not ~50 KiB what my 
core.img requires.