Failure installing Ubuntu 24.04 on an USB stick
Volker Wysk
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Fri Aug 16 17:10:19 UTC 2024
Am Freitag, dem 16.08.2024 um 18:32 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-
users:
> PS:
>
> This seems to explain the "unallocated" space:
>
> "3.2 Master Boot Record (MBR) specific instructions
>
> Usually the post-MBR gap (after the 512 byte MBR region and before the
> start of the first partition) in many MBR partitioned systems is 31 KiB
> when DOS compatibility cylinder alignment issues are satisfied in the
> partition table. However a post-MBR gap of about 1 to 2 MiB is
> recommended to provide sufficient room for embedding GRUB's core.img
> (FS#24103). It is advisable to use a partitioning tool that supports 1
> MiB partition alignment to obtain this space as well as to satisfy other
> non-512-byte-sector issues (which are unrelated to embedding of
> core.img)." -
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Master_Boot_Record_(MBR)_specific_instructions
Thanks, but I don't care much about that mini-partition(s).
Volker
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