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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7<sect1 id="ch-system-grub" role="wrap">
8  <?dbhtml filename="grub.html"?>
9
10  <title>GRUB-&grub-version;</title>
11
12  <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub">
13    <primary sortas="a-GRUB">GRUB</primary>
14  </indexterm>
15
16  <sect2 role="package">
17    <title/>
18
19    <para>The GRUB package contains the GRand Unified Bootloader.</para>
20
21  </sect2>
22
23  <sect2 role="installation">
24    <title>Installation of GRUB</title>
25
26   <para os="p1">GRUB has an issue where it sometimes doesn't detect
27   the disk geometry correctly when used with Linux 2.6. This results
28   in the error message <literal>Error 24: Attempt to access block outside
29   partition<literal>. The following patch fixes this issue:</para>
30
31<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&grub-disk-patch;</userinput></screen>
32
33    <para os="a">This package is known to have issues when its default optimization
34    flags (including the <option>-march</option> and <option>-mcpu</option>
35    options) are changed. If any environment variables that override default
36    optimizations have been defined, such as <envar>CFLAGS</envar> and
37    <envar>CXXFLAGS</envar>, unset them when building GRUB.</para>
38
39    <para os="b">Prepare GRUB for compilation:</para>
40
41<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
42
43    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
44
45<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
46
47    <para os="e">To test the results, issue:
48    <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
49
50    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
51
52<screen os="g"><userinput>make install
53mkdir -v /boot/grub
54cp -v /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage{1,2} /boot/grub</userinput></screen>
55
56    <para os="h">Replace <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> with whatever
57    directory is appropriate for the hardware in use.</para>
58
59    <para os="i">The <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> directory
60    contains a number of <filename>*stage1_5</filename> files, different
61    ones for different file systems. Review the files available and copy
62    the appropriate ones to the <filename
63    class="directory">/boot/grub</filename> directory. Most users will
64    copy the <filename>e2fs_stage1_5</filename> and/or
65    <filename>reiserfs_stage1_5</filename> files.</para>
66
67  </sect2>
68
69  <sect2 id="contents-grub" role="content">
70    <title>Contents of GRUB</title>
71
72    <segmentedlist>
73      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
74
75      <seglistitem>
76        <seg>grub, grub-install, grub-md5-crypt, grub-terminfo, and mbchk</seg>
77      </seglistitem>
78    </segmentedlist>
79
80    <variablelist>
81      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
82      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
83      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
84
85      <varlistentry id="grub">
86        <term><command>grub</command></term>
87        <listitem>
88          <para>The Grand Unified Bootloader's command shell</para>
89          <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub">
90            <primary sortas="b-grub">grub</primary>
91          </indexterm>
92        </listitem>
93      </varlistentry>
94
95      <varlistentry id="grub-install">
96        <term><command>grub-install</command></term>
97        <listitem>
98          <para>Installs GRUB on the given device</para>
99          <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-install">
100            <primary sortas="b-grub-install">grub-install</primary>
101          </indexterm>
102        </listitem>
103      </varlistentry>
104
105      <varlistentry id="grub-md5-crypt">
106        <term><command>grub-md5-crypt</command></term>
107        <listitem>
108          <para>Encrypts a password in MD5 format</para>
109          <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-md5-crypt">
110            <primary sortas="b-grub-md5-crypt">grub-md5-crypt</primary>
111          </indexterm>
112        </listitem>
113      </varlistentry>
114
115      <varlistentry id="grub-terminfo">
116        <term><command>grub-terminfo</command></term>
117        <listitem>
118          <para>Generates a terminfo command from a terminfo name; it can be
119          employed if an unknown terminal is being used</para>
120          <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-terminfo">
121            <primary sortas="b-grub-terminfo">grub-terminfo</primary>
122          </indexterm>
123        </listitem>
124      </varlistentry>
125
126      <varlistentry id="mbchk">
127        <term><command>mbchk</command></term>
128        <listitem>
129          <para>Checks the format of a multi-boot kernel</para>
130          <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub mbchk">
131            <primary sortas="b-mbchk">mbchk</primary>
132          </indexterm>
133        </listitem>
134      </varlistentry>
135
136    </variablelist>
137
138  </sect2>
139
140</sect1>
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