On 3/25/19 5:20 PM, Eric Snowberg wrote: > I tried it out, but on my system it doesn’t fit in the 512 byte block? Am I > missing something? > > Before the patch: > > $ grub-install --force --skip-fs-probe /dev/sdb1 > Installing for sparc64-ieee1275 platform. > grub-install: warning: Attempting to install GRUB to a partitionless disk or > to a partition. This is a BAD idea.. > grub-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.. > Installation finished. No error reported. > > $ ls -al /boot/grub/sparc64-ieee1275/boot.img > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 512 Mar 25 12:13 /boot/grub/sparc64-ieee1275/boot.img > > After: > > $ grub-install --force --skip-fs-probe /dev/sdb1 > Installing for sparc64-ieee1275 platform. > grub-install: error: the size of `/boot/grub/sparc64-ieee1275/boot.img' is > not 512. > > $ ls -al /boot/grub/sparc64-ieee1275/boot.img > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 544 Mar 25 12:10 /boot/grub/sparc64-ieee1275/boot.img Could you tell me what build environment this is?
Is this on Solaris? I want to try reproducing it, so I can figure what happened. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
