Taken from: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906414.

Author: Lukas Schwaighofer <lukas@schwaighofer.name>
Description: Strip the .note.gnu.property section for the mbr. This section is
 added since binutils Debian version 2.31.1-2 and causes mbr.bin to grow in
 size beyond what can fit into the master boot record.
---
 mbr/i386/mbr.ld   | 1 +
 mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mbr/i386/mbr.ld b/mbr/i386/mbr.ld
index d14ba80..5368346 100644
--- a/mbr/i386/mbr.ld
+++ b/mbr/i386/mbr.ld
@@ -70,4 +70,5 @@ SECTIONS
   .debug_typenames 0 : { *(.debug_typenames) }
   .debug_varnames  0 : { *(.debug_varnames) }
   /DISCARD/ : { *(.note.GNU-stack) }
+  /DISCARD/ : { *(.note.gnu.property) }
 }
diff --git a/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld b/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld
index ae27d49..b8c0d89 100644
--- a/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld
+++ b/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld
@@ -69,4 +69,5 @@ SECTIONS
   .debug_typenames 0 : { *(.debug_typenames) }
   .debug_varnames  0 : { *(.debug_varnames) }
   /DISCARD/ : { *(.note.GNU-stack) }
+  /DISCARD/ : { *(.note.gnu.property) }
 }
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<tr><td><span title='2019-05-05 17:21:18 +0200'>2019-05-05</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu/installer/newt/menu.scm?id=28b26eca45ada3f8612d135f80c8dfd2e7fa0e81'>installer: Fix typo.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* gnu/installer/newt/menu.scm (run-menu-page): Add missing space after
period.

Signed-off-by: Danny Milosavljevic &lt;dannym@scratchpost.org&gt;
</span></span></td><td>Miguel</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2019-01-17 14:04:26 +0100'>2019-01-17</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu/installer/newt/menu.scm?id=a7b2a4649fdbc4c9d2e49c6ee3b0e9a94048861c'>installer: menu: Fix typo.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* gnu/installer/newt/menu.scm (run-menu-page): Fix typo.
</span></span></td><td>Mathieu Othacehe</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2019-01-17 14:04:20 +0100'>2019-01-17</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu/installer/newt/menu.scm?id=d0f3a672dcbdfefd3556b6a21985ff0e35eed3be'>gnu: Add graphical installer support.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* configure.ac: Require that guile-newt is available.
* gnu/installer.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/aux-files/logo.txt: New file.
* gnu/installer/build-installer.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/connman.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/keymap.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/locale.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/newt.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/newt/ethernet.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/newt/hostname.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/newt/keymap.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/newt/locale.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/newt/menu.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/newt/network.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/newt/page.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/newt/timezone.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/newt/user.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/newt/utils.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/newt/welcome.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/newt/wifi.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/steps.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/timezone.scm: New file.
* gnu/installer/utils.scm: New file.
* gnu/local.mk (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add previous files.
* gnu/system.scm: Export %root-account.
* gnu/system/install.scm (%installation-services): Use kmscon instead of linux
VT for all tty.
(installation-os)[users]: Add the graphical installer as shell of the root
account.
[packages]: Add font related packages.
* po/guix/POTFILES.in: Add installer files.
</span></span></td><td>Mathieu Othacehe</td></tr>