Re: pkg/40258: sysutils/grub does not work with ffs file systems with blocksize > 8K

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/40258; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/40258: sysutils/grub does not work with ffs file systems
 with blocksize > 8K
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 02:00:30 +0000

  > Sysutils/grub has a well-known problem of not working with ffs file systems 
  > with a blocksize > 8K.  Since NetBSD typically defaults to 16K, that results
  > in a file system that grub fails to work with.  It's sometimes a pain to
  > rebuild the filesystem, so it would be nice if grub would work with larger
  > block sizes.
 
 Since we still have grub 0.97 in pkgsrc and this patch isn't in it, we
 should commit the patch already. It's only been sitting in gnats 13
 years.
 
 I'd do it but with something like grub the results really ought to be
 tested and I'm not in a position to do that. Can someone who is attend
 to it?
 
 (Alternatively, can someone point me at something I can use to
 generate a qemu-bootable disk image with a pkgsrc grub in it and
 something to boot from grub where one can tell if it worked?)
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost