On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 01:29:12PM +0000, Simon Hardy wrote: > With recent versions of gcc on Ubuntu a very large lzma_decompress.img file is > output. (e.g. 134479600 bytes instead of 2864.) This causes grub-mkimage to > fail with: "error: Decompressor is too big." > > This seems to be caused by a section .note.gnu.property that is placed at an > offset such that objcopy needs to pad the img file with zeros. > > This issue is present on: > Ubuntu 19.10 with gcc (Ubuntu 8.3.0-26ubuntu1~19.10) 8.3.0 > Ubuntu 19.10 with gcc (Ubuntu 9.2.1-9ubuntu2) 9.2.1 20191008 > > This issue is not present on: > Ubuntu 19.10 with gcc (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~19.10) 7.5.0 > RHEL 8.0 with gcc 8.3.1 20190507 (Red Hat 8.3.1-4) > > The issue can be fixed by removing the section using objcopy as shown in this > patch: > > Signed-off-by: Simon Hardy <simon.ha...@itdev.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com> Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
