Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

[wabe]

Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 02:20:14 GMT wabe wrote:
> > Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > On 12/03/17 07:12, Mick wrote:
> > > > On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > >> On Saturday, 2 December 2017 12:30:57 GMT Mick wrote:
> > > >>> I'm getting this error after I changed my profile as per
> > > >>> '2017-11-30-new-17-
> > > >>>
> > > >>> profiles' news item:
> > > >>>>>> Compiling source
> > > >>>>>> in /data/tmp_var/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r16/work/
> > > >>
> > > >> [...]
> > > >>
> > > >>> However, sys-boot/grub-0.97-r17 installed fine once keyworded
> > > >>> on this (mostly) stable system.  This may save time for
> > > >>> others who come across the same problem.
> > > >>
> > > >> It has. Thanks Mick.
> > > >>
> > > >> -- >> Regards,
> > > >> Peter.
> > > >>
> > > > > Unfortunately, an older system with only 50MB /boot partition
> > > > > did not
> > > >
> > > > have enough space to allow sys-boot/grub-0.97-r17 to install
> > > > all its files and fs drivers.  I ended up restoring /boot from
> > > > a back up. YMMV. I have a 250MB /boot partition and have the
> > > > same problem, and I only have one kernel installed at ~5MB.
> > >
> > > I wonder how much space it needs in total now...
> > >
> > > Dan
> >
> > I'm using a hardened system with grub-0.97-r16 and have a 93MB boot
> > partition. It contains eight kernels each about 6.7MB in size and
> > the associated System.map files each about 2.2MB in size and I have
> > still 13MB free space in boot.
> >
> > How could this be?
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > wabe
>
> Quite inexplicable ...
>
> My kernel is 7.1M, System.map 3.4M and config is 114K.  I usually
> leave a total of three kernels and associated files in my ext2
> 46M /boot partition and they all used to fit in there.  I tried to
> install grub-0.97-r16 on this system a number of times, each time
> removing another spare kernel until I was left with the latest kernel
> and each time it failed to install completely due to running out of
> disk space.
>
> These are the contents of my old /boot/grub/ as restored from a back
> up:
>
> # ls -la /boot/grub/
> total 1958
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    1024 Dec  3 14:07 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root    1024 Dec  3 11:58 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   12506 Nov 27  2016 ascii.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    5000 Nov 27  2016 ascii.pf2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     197 Feb 27  2010 default
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      30 Feb 27  2010 device.map
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   10036 Dec 10  2016 e2fs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   52151 Nov 27  2016 euro.pf2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    9236 Dec 10  2016 fat_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    8564 Dec 10  2016 ffs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    8947 Nov 27  2016 grub-mkconfig_lib
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     809 Dec  3 14:07 grub.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    8564 Dec 10  2016 iso9660_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   10208 Dec 10  2016 jfs_stage1_5
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 Feb 27  2010 menu.lst -> grub.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    8724 Dec 10  2016 minix_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   11252 Dec 10  2016 reiserfs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   33856 Dec 10  2016 splash.xpm.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     512 Dec 10  2016 stage1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  118712 Dec 10  2016 stage2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  118712 Dec 20  2015 stage2.old
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  118712 Dec 10  2016 stage2_eltorito
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    8852 Dec 10  2016 ufs2_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1363292 Nov 27  2016 unicode.pf2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    8212 Dec 10  2016 vstafs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   49238 Nov 27  2016 widthspec.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   10874 Dec 10  2016 xfs_stage1_5
>
> Installing grub-0.97-r16 would run out of disk space while trying to
> copy the stage2 file.


Strange, indeed. 

# ls -alh /boot/grub/
total 505K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1,0K 22. Nov 03:51 .
dr-x------ 4 root root 1,0K 22. Okt 20:51 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  197  7. Dez 2016  default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   15 28. Dez 2014  device.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  11K 26. Apr 2017  e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9,3K 26. Apr 2017  fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,7K 26. Apr 2017  ffs_stage1_5
-rw------- 1 root root 7,9K  4. Mär 2014  grub.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  514 22. Nov 03:50 grub.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,7K 26. Apr 2017  iso9660_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  11K 26. Apr 2017  jfs_stage1_5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    9 11. Mär 2012  menu.lst -> grub.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,9K 26. Apr 2017  minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12K 26. Apr 2017  reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  34K 26. Apr 2017  splash.xpm.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  512 26. Apr 2017  stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 119K 26. Apr 2017  stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 119K 26. Apr 2017  stage2_eltorito
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 119K  7. Dez 2016  stage2.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,9K 26. Apr 2017  ufs2_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,3K 26. Apr 2017  vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  11K 26. Apr 2017  xfs_stage1_5

$ eix sys-boot/grub
[I] sys-boot/grub
     Available versions:  
     (0)    0.97-r16{tbz2} ~0.97-r17
     (2)    [m]2.02(2/2.02)^st [m]**9999(2/9999)^st
       {custom-cflags debug device-mapper doc efiemu +fonts libzfs mount multislot ncurses netboot nls sdl static test +themes truetype GRUB_PLATFORMS="coreboot efi-32 efi-64 emu ieee1275 loongson multiboot pc qemu qemu-mips uboot xen xen-32"}
     Installed versions:  0.97-r16{tbz2}(09:05:23 26.04.2017)(ncurses -custom-cflags -netboot -static)
     Homepage:            https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
     Description:         GNU GRUB boot loader

* sys-boot/grub-static
     Available versions:  0.96-r1 0.97 0.97-r6 0.97-r9 0.97-r10 0.97-r12
     Homepage:            https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
     Description:         GNU GRUB Legacy boot loader (static build)

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wabe