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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.hardy@itdev.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
This is GRUB 2, the second version of the GRand Unified Bootloader. GRUB 2 is rewritten from scratch to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more robust, more powerful, and more portable. See the file NEWS for a description of recent changes to GRUB 2. See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install the GRUB 2 data and program files. Please visit the official web page of GRUB 2, for more information. The URL is <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html>. More extensive documentation is available in the Info manual, accessible using 'info grub' after building and installing GRUB 2. There are a number of important user-visible differences from the first version of GRUB, now known as GRUB Legacy. For a summary, please see: info grub Introduction 'Changes from GRUB Legacy'