Comment 2 for bug 444587

I can confirm that for karmic and amd64-architecture, too.

Package version: grub 0.97-29ubuntu57

Contents of /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-pc:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134504664 2009-10-06 12:01 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134504664 2009-10-06 12:01 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134504664 2009-10-06 12:01 jfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134504664 2009-10-06 12:01 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134504664 2009-10-06 12:01 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134481080 2009-10-06 12:01 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268959632 2009-10-06 12:01 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268960656 2009-10-06 12:01 stage2_eltorito
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134504664 2009-10-06 12:01 xfs_stage1_5

Since the package file size seems to be only 2.4 MB I guess it's the post-processing script that generates the large files. Otherwise the compression ratio would be awesome... ;-)