On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 01:15:46AM +0000, Immolo via Grub-devel wrote: > Using Gentoo with clang on a MBR system I have come across an extra string the > content /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is being added to > /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/diskboot.img > and /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/boot.img taking it over 512 bytes meaning it can't > be > used on a MBR system. > You can use truncate to remove the extra string then it will install and boot > correctly but I am highlighting this here in hopes of a better fix. > Steps to reproduce in Gentoo: > 1. Use a clang stage3 on a MBR system. > 2. emerge -va sys-boot/grub > 3. grub-install /dev/sda > Error: > Installing for i386-pc platform. > grub-install: error: diskboot.img size must be 512 bytes. > Workaround: > 1. truncate -s 512 /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/diskboot.img > 2. truncate -s 512 /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/boot.img > 3. grub-install /dev/sda > I'm not really sure what files I can attach to help debugging this one but if > you can think of any please ask for them.
Could you provide us more information about your environment, i.e. OS version, clang version, binutils version, etc.? Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
