%general-entities; ]> GRUB If you would like use a different bootloader than this one you can go to the following link for alterative bootloaders and the instructions to use them. GRUB has an issue where it sometimes doesn't detect the disk geometry correctly when used with Linux 2.6, resulting in the error message Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition. The following patch contains a fix for this issue as well as various fixes for raid controllers and support for the new Intel Mac: patch -Np1 -i ../&grub-fixes-patch; By default, GRUB doesn't support ext2 filesystems with 256-byte inodes. Fix this by applying the following patch: patch -Np1 -i ../&grub-256byte_inode-patch; This package is known to have issues when its default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options) are changed. If any environment variables that override default optimizations have been defined, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, unset them when building GRUB. Prepare GRUB for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make check. Install the package: make install mkdir -pv /boot/grub cp -v /usr/lib/grub/*/stage{1,2} /boot/grub The directory in /usr/lib/grub (its name depends on your arch) contains a number of *stage1_5 files, different ones for different file systems. Review the files available and copy the appropriate ones to the /boot/grub directory. Most users will copy the e2fs_stage1_5 and/or reiserfs_stage1_5 files. Installed programs grub, grub-install, grub-md5-crypt, grub-set-default, grub-terminfo, and mbchk Short Descriptions grub The Grand Unified Bootloader's command shell grub grub-install Installs GRUB on the given device grub-install grub-md5-crypt Encrypts a password in MD5 format grub-md5-crypt grub-set-default Sets the default boot entry for GRUB grub-set-default grub-terminfo Generates a terminfo command from a terminfo name; it can be employed if an unknown terminal is being used grub-terminfo mbchk Checks the format of a multi-boot kernel mbchk