> On Mar 25, 2019, at 1:21 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > 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. >
I’m using Oracle Linux for SPARC (6.9). _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
