Are you doing this on a 64bit machine?
Yes
I tested your stage2 file and it
was parsed correctly on my OpenSUSE 10.3 32bit machine. But it looks like a bug in lar. I have no idea whether the lar and lzma code were audited to be 64bit clean.
I guess not.
Can you compile a 32bit version of build/util/lar/lar and look whether that works?
It works on my 32-bit machine as well. Thanks, Myles