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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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[3e36a78] | 4 | <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../patches.ent">
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[673b0d8] | 5 | %general-entities;
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[3e36a78] | 6 | %patches-entities;
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[673b0d8] | 7 | ]>
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[81fd230] | 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-grub" role="wrap">
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[4122675] | 9 | <title>GRUB-&grub-version;</title>
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[673b0d8] | 10 | <?dbhtml filename="grub.html"?>
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| 11 |
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[4122675] | 12 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub"><primary sortas="a-Grub">GRUB</primary></indexterm>
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[955533b] | 13 |
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[a001133] | 14 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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[4122675] | 15 | <para>The GRUB package contains the GRand Unified Bootloader.</para>
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[5888299] | 16 |
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[a001133] | 17 | <segmentedlist>
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| 18 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 19 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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[eb6d9eb] | 20 | <seglistitem><seg>0.2 SBU</seg><seg>10.0 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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[a001133] | 21 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 22 |
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[81fd230] | 23 | <segmentedlist>
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[45992ae] | 24 | <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
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[81fd230] | 25 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
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| 26 | GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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| 27 | </segmentedlist>
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[a001133] | 28 | </sect2>
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[955533b] | 29 |
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[a001133] | 30 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[4122675] | 31 | <title>Installation of GRUB</title>
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[73aedd1d] | 32 |
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[81fd230] | 33 | <para>This package is known to have issues when its default
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| 34 | optimization flags (including the <parameter>-march</parameter> and
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| 35 | <parameter>-mcpu</parameter> options) are changed. If any environment
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| 36 | variables that override default optimizations have been defined, such
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| 37 | as <envar>CFLAGS</envar> and <envar>CXXFLAGS</envar>,
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[4122675] | 38 | unset them when building GRUB.</para>
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[81fd230] | 39 |
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[4122675] | 40 | <para>Prepare GRUB for compilation:</para>
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[9dfc02f] | 41 |
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[0fa9275] | 42 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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[9dfc02f] | 43 |
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[81fd230] | 44 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 45 |
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| 46 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 47 |
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[9dfc02f] | 48 | <para>To test the results, issue:
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[2e02c35] | 49 | <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
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[81fd230] | 50 |
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| 51 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 52 |
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| 53 | <screen><userinput>make install
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| 54 | mkdir /boot/grub
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[2f9d550] | 55 | cp /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage{1,2} /boot/grub</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 56 |
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[81fd230] | 57 | <para>Replace <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> with whatever
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| 58 | directory is appropriate for the hardware in use.</para>
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| 59 |
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[3f0c882] | 60 | <para>The <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> directory
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| 61 | contains a number of <filename>*stage1_5</filename> files, different
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| 62 | ones for different file systems. Review the files available and copy
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| 63 | the appropriate ones to the <filename
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| 64 | class="directory">/boot/grub</filename> directory. Most users will
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| 65 | copy the <filename>e2fs_stage1_5</filename> and/or
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| 66 | <filename>reiserfs_stage1_5</filename> files.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 67 |
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| 68 | </sect2>
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[955533b] | 69 |
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[5888299] | 70 |
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[4122675] | 71 | <sect2 id="contents-gRUB" role="content"><title>Contents of GRUB</title>
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[673b0d8] | 72 |
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[81fd230] | 73 | <segmentedlist>
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| 74 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 75 | <seglistitem><seg>grub, grub-install,
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| 76 | grub-md5-crypt, grub-terminfo, and mbchk</seg></seglistitem>
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| 77 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 78 |
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[81fd230] | 79 | <variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 80 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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[8f97096] | 81 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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[81fd230] | 82 |
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| 83 | <varlistentry id="grub">
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| 84 | <term><command>grub</command></term>
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| 85 | <listitem>
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| 86 | <para>The Grand Unified Bootloader's command shell</para>
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| 87 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub"><primary sortas="b-grub">grub</primary></indexterm>
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| 88 | </listitem>
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| 89 | </varlistentry>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <varlistentry id="grub-install">
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| 92 | <term><command>grub-install</command></term>
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| 93 | <listitem>
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| 94 | <para>Installs GRUB on the given device</para>
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| 95 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-install"><primary sortas="b-grub-install">grub-install</primary></indexterm>
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| 96 | </listitem>
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| 97 | </varlistentry>
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| 98 |
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| 99 | <varlistentry id="grub-md5-crypt">
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| 100 | <term><command>grub-md5-crypt</command></term>
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| 101 | <listitem>
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| 102 | <para>Encrypts a password in MD5 format</para>
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| 103 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-md5-crypt"><primary sortas="b-grub-md5-crypt">grub-md5-crypt</primary></indexterm>
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| 104 | </listitem>
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| 105 | </varlistentry>
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| 106 |
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| 107 | <varlistentry id="grub-terminfo">
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| 108 | <term><command>grub-terminfo</command></term>
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| 109 | <listitem>
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| 110 | <para>Generates a terminfo command from a terminfo name; it can be
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| 111 | employed if an unknown terminal is being used</para>
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| 112 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-terminfo"><primary sortas="b-grub-terminfo">grub-terminfo</primary></indexterm>
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| 113 | </listitem>
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| 114 | </varlistentry>
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| 115 |
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| 116 | <varlistentry id="mbchk">
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| 117 | <term><command>mbchk</command></term>
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| 118 | <listitem>
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| 119 | <para>Checks the format of a multi-boot kernel</para>
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| 120 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub mbchk"><primary sortas="b-mbchk">mbchk</primary></indexterm>
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| 121 | </listitem>
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| 122 | </varlistentry>
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| 123 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 124 |
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[81fd230] | 125 | </sect2>
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[673b0d8] | 126 |
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| 127 | </sect1>
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[81fd230] | 128 |
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