Re: Problem with building flash-images with grub-2.14

[Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>]

Hi Michael,

On 20/01/2026 17:58, Michael Tremer wrote:
> Hello Adolf,
> 
> There is something on the GRUB list about this:
> 
>    https://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel%40gnu.org/msg42915.html?
> 
> It seems that it is either a bug in the linker or in GRUB, but there does not seem to be a solution.

Interesting that it is only the flash images that fail and not the cdrom. arch Linux have updated to it and I now have it on all my systems and I ran the grub-install and grub-mkconfig successfully for all systems.

> 
> I suppose we will have to wait for a fix from upstream.

No problems. I have also put the grub-btrfs update into the hold category as that was also updated to 2.14 and don't want to cause problem with that.

Regards,

Adolf.

> 
> Best,
> -Michael
> 
>> On 20 Jan 2026, at 12:46, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Grub-2.14 has been released and I have built it. The build was able to be run successfully.
>>
>> The build also successfully ran the cdrom stage but it then failed in the flash-images section of the build.
>>
>> I reverted grub back to the previous version and flash-images was able to be built without any issues.
>>
>> Here is the end of the log showing the error that caused flash-images to fail.
>>
>> Any help or suggestions on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. If more of the flash-images build log is required then I can put it into the IPFire pastebin (it is around 3000 lines).
>>
>> ERROR: ld.so: object '/tools_x86_64/lib/libpakfire_preload.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
>> ERROR: ld.so: object '/tools_x86_64/lib/libpakfire_preload.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
>> Root filesystem isn't btrfs, skipping...
>> ERROR: ld.so: object '/tools_x86_64/lib/libpakfire_preload.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
>> ERROR: ld.so: object '/tools_x86_64/lib/libpakfire_preload.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
>> ERROR: ld.so: object '/tools_x86_64/lib/libpakfire_preload.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
>> ERROR: ld.so: object '/tools_x86_64/lib/libpakfire_preload.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
>> done
>> # Boot the first kernel by default
>> chroot /tmp/harddisk grub-set-default 0
>> ERROR: ld.so: object '/tools_x86_64/lib/libpakfire_preload.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
>> ERROR: ld.so: object '/tools_x86_64/lib/libpakfire_preload.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
>> ERROR: ld.so: object '/tools_x86_64/lib/libpakfire_preload.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
>> ERROR: ld.so: object '/tools_x86_64/lib/libpakfire_preload.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
>> ERROR: ld.so: object '/tools_x86_64/lib/libpakfire_preload.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
>> ERROR: ld.so: object '/tools_x86_64/lib/libpakfire_preload.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
>> ERROR: ld.so: object '/tools_x86_64/lib/libpakfire_preload.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
>> # Insert the UUID because grub-mkconfig often fails to
>> # detect that correctly
>> sed -i /tmp/harddisk/boot/grub/grub.cfg \
>> -e "s/root=[A-Za-z0-9\/=-]*/root=UUID=$(blkid -o value -s UUID /dev/mapper/loop0p3)/g"
>> # Install GRUB
>> grub-install --force --recheck --no-floppy --target=i386-pc \
>> --root-directory=/tmp/harddisk /dev/loop0
>> Installing for i386-pc platform.
>> grub-install: error: `/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/kernel.img' is miscompiled: its start address is 0x9074 instead of 0x9000: ld.gold bug?.
>> make: *** [flash-images:157: /usr/src/log/flash-image] Error 1
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Adolf.
>>
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