Re: [PATCH] ieee1275: Include a.out header in assembly of sparc64 boot loader

[Eric Snowberg]

> 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).