lode leroy wrote: > I tried compiling grub from bzr on cygwin. > > grub-mkimage failed with the following error: > > ~/grub/build/grub-core $ ../grub-mkimage -v -O i386-pc -d . -o > core.img biosdisk part_msdos fat ntfs > ../grub-mkimage: info: getting the size of ./biosdisk.mod. > [...] > ../grub-mkimage: info: getting the size of ./kernel.img. > ../grub-mkimage: error: invalid ELF header. >
In the past (1.98), kernel.img was a raw binary. Now it is an ELF file which requires extra conversion if build on Cygwin. I will provide a patch to fix Cygwin build for 1.99. > I found that the problem can be solved by replacing the following > line in the Makefile > > strip -v -R .rel.dyn -R .reginfo -R .note -R .comment -o kernel.img > kernel.exec.exe > > by > > strip -Felf32-i386 -v -R .rel.dyn -R .reginfo -R .note -R .comment > -o kernel.img kernel.exec.exe > Did the core.img actually work as expected then? Thanks for the problem report. -- Regards, Christian Franke _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
