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<p><font face="Bitstream Vera Sans">This in 2014 x86_64 on an older
MBR ASUS K53E notebook.</font></p>
<p><font face="Bitstream Vera Sans"># grub2-install --force
/dev/sda11<br>
Installing for i386-pc platform.<br>
grub2-install: warning: File system ‘ext2’ doesn't support
embedding.<br>
grub2-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..<br>
Installation finished. No error reported.</font></p>
<p><font face="Bitstream Vera Sans"># rpm -qa | grep grub2<br>
grub2-2.02-1.beta3.3-omv2014.0.x86_64<br>
kcm-grub2-0.6.4-4.1-omv2014.0.x86_64<br>
grub2-efi-2.02-1.beta3.3-omv2014.0.x86_64<br>
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<p><font face="Bitstream Vera Sans">Why? After all this time we
don't have grub2 working with our own installed systems? The fs
types are ext4. This system has been installed and used for a
long time. Why is grub2 not working now? Also why is "</font><font
face="Bitstream Vera Sans">Installing for i386-pc platform"?
Because it's MBR? That doesn't make sense.</font></p>
<p><font face="Bitstream Vera Sans">I'm probably going to have to
file a bug report but would like to know a little more first.</font><br>
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Ben Bullard
ben79
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OpenMandriva-QA Team
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