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  1. Bug #1051154
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Comment 2 for bug 1051154

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Laurie Bradshaw (lauriebradshaw) wrote : Re: [quantal] warning: your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it.

I'm seeing a very similiar issue, although with no raid setup - just a single sata disk, standard partition table, nothing complex.

/usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: warning: this LDM has no Embedding Partition; embedding won't be possible.
/usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for RAID and LVM install.

$ fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 300.1 GB, 300069052416 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders, total 586072368 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8f83bc52

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 562628430 586067264 11719417+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 63 562628429 281314183+ 83 Linux

Currently resorting to manually installing grub 1.99-22ubuntu2 every time I update so the system actually boots.