Re: Bug in grub 0.95

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Monday 14 June 2004 17:09, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> >      make[3]: Entering directory
> > `/home/mccramer/tmp/grub-0.95/stage2' ffs_stage1_5 is too big (8448
> > > 7168).
> >      FAIL: size_test
> >      =================================
> >      1 of 1 tests failed
> >      Please report to address@hidden
> >      =================================
>
> This is actually expected and nonfatal. You can just ignore it.

It is true that this error is not very important, but I think it is 
better not to ignore this error. Because, if Stage 1.5 becomes bigger, 
Stage2 should become bigger as well. This does not affect anything, if 
the size is still not too big. But if this exceeds available free space 
before EBDA, this could be fatal.

Probably Meino specified CFLAGS and/or CPPFLAGS explicitly when 
compiling GRUB. Since the default CFLAGS is quite optimized to reduce 
the binary size, you should not try to alter the flags. We must add 
this into the FAQ.

Okuji