On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 12:50 PM Daniel Kiper <dki...@net-space.pl> wrote: > > 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. > > It looks we will have a fix for this soon [1]... > > Daniel > > [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2023-01/msg00085.html
I applied the fix in Gentoo earlier today. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c382388940b194bf1a8bb1c4392394a699108165 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
