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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" |
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [ |
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent"> |
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| 5 | %general-entities; |
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| 6 | ]> |
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| 7 | <sect1 id="ch-system-grub" role="wrap"> |
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="grub.html"?> |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | <title>GRUB-&grub-version;</title> |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub"> |
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| 13 | <primary sortas="a-GRUB">GRUB</primary> |
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| 14 | </indexterm> |
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| 15 | |
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| 16 | <sect2 role="package"> |
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| 17 | <title/> |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | <para>The GRUB package contains the GRand Unified Bootloader.</para> |
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| 20 | |
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| 21 | </sect2> |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | <sect2 role="installation"> |
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| 24 | <title>Installation of GRUB</title> |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | <para os="a">This package is known to have issues when its default optimization |
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| 27 | flags (including the <option>-march</option> and <option>-mcpu</option> |
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| 28 | options) are changed. If any environment variables that override default |
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| 29 | optimizations have been defined, such as <envar>CFLAGS</envar> and |
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| 30 | <envar>CXXFLAGS</envar>, unset them when building GRUB.</para> |
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| 31 | |
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| 32 | <para os="b">Prepare GRUB for compilation:</para> |
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| 33 | |
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| 34 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen> |
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| 35 | |
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| 36 | <para os="c">Compile the package:</para> |
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| 37 | |
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| 38 | <screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen> |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | <para os="e">To test the results, issue: |
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[e3a1e522] | 41 | <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 42 | |
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[e3a1e522] | 43 | <para os="f">Install the package:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 44 | |
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[e3a1e522] | 45 | <screen os="g"><userinput>make install |
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[94e6142] | 46 | mkdir -v /boot/grub |
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| 47 | cp -v /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage{1,2} /boot/grub</userinput></screen> |
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[3f8be484] | 48 | |
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[e3a1e522] | 49 | <para os="h">Replace <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> with whatever |
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[3f8be484] | 50 | directory is appropriate for the hardware in use.</para> |
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| 51 | |
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[e3a1e522] | 52 | <para os="i">The <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> directory |
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[3f8be484] | 53 | contains a number of <filename>*stage1_5</filename> files, different |
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| 54 | ones for different file systems. Review the files available and copy |
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| 55 | the appropriate ones to the <filename |
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| 56 | class="directory">/boot/grub</filename> directory. Most users will |
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| 57 | copy the <filename>e2fs_stage1_5</filename> and/or |
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| 58 | <filename>reiserfs_stage1_5</filename> files.</para> |
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| 59 | |
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| 60 | </sect2> |
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| 61 | |
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| 62 | <sect2 id="contents-grub" role="content"> |
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| 63 | <title>Contents of GRUB</title> |
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| 64 | |
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| 65 | <segmentedlist> |
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| 66 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle> |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | <seglistitem> |
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| 69 | <seg>grub, grub-install, grub-md5-crypt, grub-terminfo, and mbchk</seg> |
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| 70 | </seglistitem> |
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| 71 | </segmentedlist> |
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| 72 | |
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| 73 | <variablelist> |
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| 74 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead> |
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| 75 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> |
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| 76 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | <varlistentry id="grub"> |
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| 79 | <term><command>grub</command></term> |
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| 80 | <listitem> |
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| 81 | <para>The Grand Unified Bootloader's command shell</para> |
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| 82 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub"> |
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| 83 | <primary sortas="b-grub">grub</primary> |
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| 84 | </indexterm> |
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| 85 | </listitem> |
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| 86 | </varlistentry> |
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| 87 | |
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| 88 | <varlistentry id="grub-install"> |
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| 89 | <term><command>grub-install</command></term> |
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| 90 | <listitem> |
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| 91 | <para>Installs GRUB on the given device</para> |
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| 92 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-install"> |
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| 93 | <primary sortas="b-grub-install">grub-install</primary> |
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| 94 | </indexterm> |
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| 95 | </listitem> |
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| 96 | </varlistentry> |
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| 97 | |
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| 98 | <varlistentry id="grub-md5-crypt"> |
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| 99 | <term><command>grub-md5-crypt</command></term> |
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| 100 | <listitem> |
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| 101 | <para>Encrypts a password in MD5 format</para> |
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| 102 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-md5-crypt"> |
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| 103 | <primary sortas="b-grub-md5-crypt">grub-md5-crypt</primary> |
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| 104 | </indexterm> |
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| 105 | </listitem> |
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| 106 | </varlistentry> |
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| 107 | |
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| 108 | <varlistentry id="grub-terminfo"> |
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| 109 | <term><command>grub-terminfo</command></term> |
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| 110 | <listitem> |
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| 111 | <para>Generates a terminfo command from a terminfo name; it can be |
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| 112 | employed if an unknown terminal is being used</para> |
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| 113 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-terminfo"> |
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| 114 | <primary sortas="b-grub-terminfo">grub-terminfo</primary> |
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| 115 | </indexterm> |
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| 116 | </listitem> |
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| 117 | </varlistentry> |
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| 118 | |
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| 119 | <varlistentry id="mbchk"> |
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| 120 | <term><command>mbchk</command></term> |
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| 121 | <listitem> |
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| 122 | <para>Checks the format of a multi-boot kernel</para> |
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| 123 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub mbchk"> |
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| 124 | <primary sortas="b-mbchk">mbchk</primary> |
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| 125 | </indexterm> |
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| 126 | </listitem> |
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| 127 | </varlistentry> |
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| 128 | |
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| 129 | </variablelist> |
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| 130 | |
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| 131 | </sect2> |
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| 132 | |
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| 133 | </sect1> |
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