• [gentoo-user] Re: grub 0.97-r18 fails sanity check, stage2 larger than

    From Nuno Silva@21:1/5 to Andreas K. Huettel on Wed Jan 26 10:00:02 2022
    On 2022-01-25, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:

    Am Freitag, 21. Januar 2022, 16:46:17 CET schrieb Skippy:
    I think emerge wants to rebuild grub because of a changed USE flag.

    [ebuild R ] sys-boot/grub-0.97-r18::Skippy USE="ncurses
    -custom-cflags -netboot -static" KERNEL="(-linux%*)" 0 KiB

    When doing so it fails.

    * Sanity check failed: stage2
    (/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r18/work/grub-0.97/stage2/stage2)
    is larger than 1MB (268959736 bytes)!

    It's clearly not fitting into a beer can anymore.

    But 256 MB where it shouldn't exceed 1 MB?

    grub-0.97 is historical software. Please consider using something a bit fresher.


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    Nuno Silva

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