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Re: [PATCH] ieee1275: Include a.out header in assembly of sparc64 boot l
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Eric Snowberg |
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Re: [PATCH] ieee1275: Include a.out header in assembly of sparc64 boot loader |
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Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:41:22 -0600 |
> On Mar 25, 2019, at 1:21 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <address@hidden> 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).