[673b0d8] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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[1fe35e1] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE section [
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[673b0d8] | 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[1fe35e1] | 6 | <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng"
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| 7 | xml:id="ch-system-grub" xreflabel="Grub" role="wrap">
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| 8 | <info><title>Grub-&grub-version;</title></info>
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[673b0d8] | 9 | <?dbhtml filename="grub.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub"><primary sortas="a-Grub">Grub</primary></indexterm>
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[955533b] | 12 |
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[1fe35e1] | 13 | <section role="package"><info><title/></info>
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[5888299] | 14 | <para>The Grub package contains the GRand Unified Bootloader.</para>
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| 15 |
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[a001133] | 16 | <segmentedlist>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 18 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 19 | <seglistitem><seg>0.2 SBU</seg><seg>10 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 20 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 21 |
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[a001133] | 22 | <segmentedlist>
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| 23 | <segtitle>Grub installation depends on</segtitle>
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| 24 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
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| 25 | GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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| 26 | </segmentedlist>
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[1fe35e1] | 27 | </section>
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[955533b] | 28 |
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[1fe35e1] | 29 | <section role="installation">
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[73aedd1d] | 30 | <title>Installation of Grub</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its default
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[ef57e3b] | 33 | optimization flags (including the <parameter>-march</parameter> and
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| 34 | <parameter>-mcpu</parameter> options). Therefore, if you
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[73aedd1d] | 35 | have defined any environment variables that override default optimizations,
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[673b0d8] | 36 | such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend un-setting them when building
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[73aedd1d] | 37 | Grub.</para>
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| 38 |
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[0fa9275] | 39 | <para>Prepare Grub for compilation:</para>
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[9dfc02f] | 40 |
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[0fa9275] | 41 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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[9dfc02f] | 42 |
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| 43 | <para>Now compile the rest of the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 44 |
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| 45 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 46 |
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[9dfc02f] | 47 | <para>To test the results, issue:
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| 48 | <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
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| 49 |
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[03ddc79] | 50 | <para>Note that the test results will always give the error
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| 51 | <quote>ufs2_stage1_5 is too big</quote>. This is due to a compiler issue,
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| 52 | but can be ignored unless you plan to boot from a UFS partition, normally only
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| 53 | used by Sun workstations.
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| 54 | </para>
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| 55 |
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[673b0d8] | 56 | <para>Now install it:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 57 |
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| 58 | <screen><userinput>make install
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| 59 | mkdir /boot/grub
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| 60 | cp /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage{1,2} /boot/grub</userinput></screen>
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| 61 |
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| 62 | <para>Replace <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> with whatever
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| 63 | directory is appropriate for your hardware.</para>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <para>The <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> directory also
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| 66 | contains a number of <filename>*stage1_5</filename> files, different ones
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[ab3b93b] | 67 | for different file systems. Have a look at the ones available and copy the
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[73aedd1d] | 68 | appropriate ones to the <filename class="directory">/boot/grub</filename>
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| 69 | directory. Most people will copy the <filename>e2fs_stage1_5</filename>
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| 70 | and/or <filename>reiserfs_stage1_5</filename> files.</para>
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| 71 |
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[1fe35e1] | 72 | </section>
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[955533b] | 73 |
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[5888299] | 74 |
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[1fe35e1] | 75 | <section xml:id="contents-grub" role="content"><info><title>Contents of Grub</title></info>
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[673b0d8] | 76 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 77 | <segmentedlist>
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| 78 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 79 | <seglistitem><seg>grub, grub-install,
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| 80 | grub-md5-crypt, grub-terminfo and mbchk</seg></seglistitem>
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| 81 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 82 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 83 | <variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
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[673b0d8] | 84 |
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[1fe35e1] | 85 | <varlistentry xml:id="grub">
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[b8a819f] | 86 | <term><command>grub</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 87 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 88 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub"><primary sortas="b-grub">grub</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 89 | <para>is the GRand Unified Bootloader's command shell.</para>
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| 90 | </listitem>
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| 91 | </varlistentry>
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[73aedd1d] | 92 |
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[1fe35e1] | 93 | <varlistentry xml:id="grub-install">
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[b8a819f] | 94 | <term><command>grub-install</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 95 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 96 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-install"><primary sortas="b-grub-install">grub-install</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 97 | <para>installs GRUB on the given device.</para>
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| 98 | </listitem>
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| 99 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 100 |
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[1fe35e1] | 101 | <varlistentry xml:id="grub-md5-crypt">
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[b8a819f] | 102 | <term><command>grub-md5-crypt</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 103 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 104 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-md5-crypt"><primary sortas="b-grub-md5-crypt">grub-md5-crypt</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 105 | <para>encrypts a password in MD5 format.</para>
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| 106 | </listitem>
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| 107 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 108 |
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[1fe35e1] | 109 | <varlistentry xml:id="grub-terminfo">
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[b8a819f] | 110 | <term><command>grub-terminfo</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 111 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 112 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-terminfo"><primary sortas="b-grub-terminfo">grub-terminfo</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 113 | <para>generates a terminfo command from a
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[673b0d8] | 114 | terminfo name. It can be used if you have an uncommon terminal.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 115 | </listitem>
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| 116 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 117 |
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[1fe35e1] | 118 | <varlistentry xml:id="mbchk">
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[b8a819f] | 119 | <term><command>mbchk</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 120 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 121 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub mbchk"><primary sortas="b-mbchk">mbchk</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 122 | <para>checks the format of a multi-boot kernel.</para>
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| 123 | </listitem>
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| 124 | </varlistentry>
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| 125 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 126 |
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[1fe35e1] | 127 | </section>
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[673b0d8] | 128 |
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| 129 |
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[1fe35e1] | 130 | </section>
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