On 23.12.2013 13:42, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> bor@server ~/grub-2.02~beta1
> $ ./grub-mkimage -d grub-core -O i386-pc -o grub.img
> ./grub-mkimage: error: Decompressor is too big.
> 
> bor@server ~/grub-2.02~beta1
> $ ls -l grub-core/*_decompress.img
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 bor None 3604 Dec 23 15:53 grub-core/lzma_decompress.img
> 
> bor@server ~/grub-2.02~beta1
> $
> 
> Well, 3604 is indeed more than size it checks (0x9000 - 0x8200 ==
> 3584). As I definitely can use beta1 on Linux for the same platform,
> it looks like Cygwin related?
> 

It has a .rdata section with following contents:
Contents of section .rdata:
 9000 4743433a 2028474e 55292034 2e382e32  GCC: (GNU) 4.8.2
 9010 00000000
We'll need to find an option to inhibit this
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