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[1770019] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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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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[81fd230] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-grub" role="wrap">
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[82fd24a] | 7 | <title>GRUB-&grub-version;</title>
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[673b0d8] | 8 | <?dbhtml filename="grub.html"?>
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| 9 |
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[82fd24a] | 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub"><primary sortas="a-Grub">GRUB</primary></indexterm>
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[955533b] | 11 |
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[a001133] | 12 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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[82fd24a] | 13 | <para>The GRUB package contains the GRand Unified Bootloader.</para>
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[5888299] | 14 |
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[a001133] | 15 | <segmentedlist>
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| 16 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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[fc1024a] | 18 | <seglistitem><seg>0.2 SBU</seg><seg>10.0 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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[a001133] | 19 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 20 |
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[81fd230] | 21 | <segmentedlist>
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[45992ae] | 22 | <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
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[81fd230] | 23 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
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| 24 | GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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| 25 | </segmentedlist>
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[a001133] | 26 | </sect2>
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[955533b] | 27 |
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[a001133] | 28 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[82fd24a] | 29 | <title>Installation of GRUB</title>
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[73aedd1d] | 30 |
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[81fd230] | 31 | <para>This package is known to have issues when its default
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| 32 | optimization flags (including the <parameter>-march</parameter> and
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| 33 | <parameter>-mcpu</parameter> options) are changed. If any environment
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| 34 | variables that override default optimizations have been defined, such
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| 35 | as <envar>CFLAGS</envar> and <envar>CXXFLAGS</envar>,
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[82fd24a] | 36 | unset them when building GRUB.</para>
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[81fd230] | 37 |
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[82fd24a] | 38 | <para>Prepare GRUB for compilation:</para>
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[9dfc02f] | 39 |
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[0fa9275] | 40 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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[9dfc02f] | 41 |
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[81fd230] | 42 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 43 |
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| 44 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 45 |
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[9dfc02f] | 46 | <para>To test the results, issue:
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| 47 | <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
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| 48 |
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[81fd230] | 49 | <para>Note that the test results will always show the error
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| 50 | <quote>ufs2_stage1_5 is too big.</quote> This is due to a compiler
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| 51 | issue, but can be ignored unless you plan to boot from an UFS
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| 52 | partition. The partitions are normally only used by Sun
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| 53 | workstations.</para>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 56 |
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| 57 | <screen><userinput>make install
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| 58 | mkdir /boot/grub
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[2f9d550] | 59 | cp /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage{1,2} /boot/grub</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 60 |
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[81fd230] | 61 | <para>Replace <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> with whatever
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| 62 | directory is appropriate for the hardware in use.</para>
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| 63 |
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[3f0c882] | 64 | <para>The <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> directory
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| 65 | contains a number of <filename>*stage1_5</filename> files, different
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| 66 | ones for different file systems. Review the files available and copy
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| 67 | the appropriate ones to the <filename
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| 68 | class="directory">/boot/grub</filename> directory. Most users will
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| 69 | copy the <filename>e2fs_stage1_5</filename> and/or
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| 70 | <filename>reiserfs_stage1_5</filename> files.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 71 |
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| 72 | </sect2>
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[955533b] | 73 |
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[5888299] | 74 |
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[82fd24a] | 75 | <sect2 id="contents-gRUB" role="content"><title>Contents of GRUB</title>
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[673b0d8] | 76 |
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[81fd230] | 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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[81fd230] | 83 | <variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 84 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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[8f97096] | 85 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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[81fd230] | 86 |
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| 87 | <varlistentry id="grub">
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| 88 | <term><command>grub</command></term>
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| 89 | <listitem>
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| 90 | <para>The Grand Unified Bootloader's command shell</para>
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| 91 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub"><primary sortas="b-grub">grub</primary></indexterm>
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| 92 | </listitem>
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| 93 | </varlistentry>
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| 94 |
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| 95 | <varlistentry id="grub-install">
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| 96 | <term><command>grub-install</command></term>
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| 97 | <listitem>
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| 98 | <para>Installs GRUB on the given device</para>
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| 99 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-install"><primary sortas="b-grub-install">grub-install</primary></indexterm>
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| 100 | </listitem>
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| 101 | </varlistentry>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | <varlistentry id="grub-md5-crypt">
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| 104 | <term><command>grub-md5-crypt</command></term>
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| 105 | <listitem>
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| 106 | <para>Encrypts a password in MD5 format</para>
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| 107 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-md5-crypt"><primary sortas="b-grub-md5-crypt">grub-md5-crypt</primary></indexterm>
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| 108 | </listitem>
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| 109 | </varlistentry>
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| 110 |
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| 111 | <varlistentry id="grub-terminfo">
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| 112 | <term><command>grub-terminfo</command></term>
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| 113 | <listitem>
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| 114 | <para>Generates a terminfo command from a terminfo name; it can be
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| 115 | employed if an unknown terminal is being used</para>
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| 116 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-terminfo"><primary sortas="b-grub-terminfo">grub-terminfo</primary></indexterm>
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| 117 | </listitem>
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| 118 | </varlistentry>
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| 119 |
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| 120 | <varlistentry id="mbchk">
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| 121 | <term><command>mbchk</command></term>
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| 122 | <listitem>
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| 123 | <para>Checks the format of a multi-boot kernel</para>
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| 124 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub mbchk"><primary sortas="b-mbchk">mbchk</primary></indexterm>
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| 125 | </listitem>
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| 126 | </varlistentry>
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| 127 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 128 |
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[81fd230] | 129 | </sect2>
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[673b0d8] | 130 |
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| 131 | </sect1>
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[81fd230] | 132 |
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