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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