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[Solved] grub-mkrescue: error: Decompressor is too big.
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2020 7:28 am
by ForgeLoxus
Hello.
I've been following the bare bones tutorial on the wiki, but when i execute the grub-mkrescue command, this error happens:
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grub-mkrescue: error: Decompressor is too big.
I've seen this error on the
forum (I haven't understood it), but i'm using Ubuntu on WSL, not Cygwin.
Re: grub-mkrescue: error: Decompressor is too big.
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2020 6:07 pm
by Octocontrabass
Sounds like it could be
this bug. Try updating your installed packages.
If you don't want to wait for all of your packages to update, try updating just GRUB.
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# apt update
# apt install grub-pc-bin
Re: grub-mkrescue: error: Decompressor is too big.
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 9:59 am
by ForgeLoxus
I updated all packages, but the same error happens.
Re: grub-mkrescue: error: Decompressor is too big.
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 3:30 pm
by Octocontrabass
Which version of Ubuntu on WSL are you using?
Re: grub-mkrescue: error: Decompressor is too big.
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 2:48 am
by ForgeLoxus
20.04.1 LTS. I'm still using wsl 1 because i haven't updated to 2004 yet.
Re: grub-mkrescue: error: Decompressor is too big.
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 11:46 am
by Octocontrabass
I installed that version of Ubuntu in WSL (not WSL2) but I can't reproduce the issue.
Re: grub-mkrescue: error: Decompressor is too big.
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 3:35 am
by ForgeLoxus
I've found the solution:
I uninstalled the grub I installed from source, then I did
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apt install grub-common
apt install grub-pc-bin
Then, grub-mkrescue worked.