Changeset 81fd230 for chapter06/grub.xml

Timestamp:

02/19/2005 10:16:42 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

3d31fc4

Parents:

2f9131f

Message:

Trunk is now identical to Testing

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4648 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/grub.xml (modified) (6 diffs)

chapter06/grub.xml

@@ -4 +4 @@
   %general-entities;
 ]>
-<sect1 id="ch-system-grub" xreflabel="Grub" role="wrap">
+<sect1 id="ch-system-grub" role="wrap">
 <title>Grub-&grub-version;</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="grub.html"?>
@@ -11 +11 @@
 
 <sect2 role="package"><title/>
+<para>The Grub package contains the Grand Unified Bootloader.</para>
 
 <segmentedlist>
@@ -18 +19 @@
 </segmentedlist>
 
+<segmentedlist>
+<segtitle>Grub installation depends on</segtitle>
+<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
+GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
+</segmentedlist>
 </sect2>
 
@@ -23 +29 @@
 <title>Installation of Grub</title>
 
+<para>This package is known to have issues when its default
+optimization flags (including the <parameter>-march</parameter> and
+<parameter>-mcpu</parameter> options) are changed. If any environment
+variables that override default optimizations have been defined, such
+as <envar>CFLAGS</envar> and <envar>CXXFLAGS</envar>,
+unset them when building Grub.</para>
+
 <para>Prepare Grub for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>Now compile the package:</para>
+<para>Compile the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
@@ -34 +47 @@
 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
 
-<para>Now install it:</para>
+<para>Note that the test results will always show the error
+<quote>ufs2_stage1_5 is too big.</quote> This is due to a compiler
+issue, but can be ignored unless you plan to boot from an UFS
+partition. The partitions are normally only used by Sun
+workstations.</para>
+
+<para>Install the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>make install
 mkdir /boot/grub
 cp /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage{1,2} /boot/grub</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Replace <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> with whatever
+directory is appropriate for the hardware in use.</para>
 
 <para>The <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> directory
@@ -53 +75 @@
 <sect2 id="contents-grub" role="content"><title>Contents of Grub</title>
 
-<para>See testing</para>
+<segmentedlist>
+<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+<seglistitem><seg>grub, grub-install,
+grub-md5-crypt, grub-terminfo, and mbchk</seg></seglistitem>
+</segmentedlist>
+
+<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+
+<varlistentry id="grub">
+<term><command>grub</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>The Grand Unified Bootloader's command shell</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub"><primary sortas="b-grub">grub</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="grub-install">
+<term><command>grub-install</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Installs GRUB on the given device</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-install"><primary sortas="b-grub-install">grub-install</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="grub-md5-crypt">
+<term><command>grub-md5-crypt</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Encrypts a password in MD5 format</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-md5-crypt"><primary sortas="b-grub-md5-crypt">grub-md5-crypt</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="grub-terminfo">
+<term><command>grub-terminfo</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Generates a terminfo command from a terminfo name; it can be
+employed if an unknown terminal is being used</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-terminfo"><primary sortas="b-grub-terminfo">grub-terminfo</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="mbchk">
+<term><command>mbchk</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Checks the format of a multi-boot kernel</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-grub mbchk"><primary sortas="b-mbchk">mbchk</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
 
 </sect2>
 
+</sect1>
 
-</sect1>