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  • More Fedora 16 Grub2 Tips and Tricks

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    I resolved the core.img is unusually large problem by expanding the boot partition. I was reinstalling a server yesterday and I found that Fedora 16 Anaconda will put a 1MB partition first in order to boot, before adding the 500MB (current standard) partition for /boot. Yeah! On the first machine, one of the tasks I…

  • Fedora 16 Grub2 Fail with “core.img is unusually large”

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    I was upgrading to Fedora 16 on my Dell Dimension E520, originally loaded with XP, and all manners of problems occurred with Grub2.  The machine is set to dual boot Linux and Windows XP and has worked fine in this capacity while testing and using a number of Linux distributions including Fedora 14 and Fedora…