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Timestamp:
Aug 8, 2010, 11:21:31 AM (14 years ago)
Author:
Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>
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clfs-1.2, clfs-2.1, clfs-3.0.0-systemd, clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit, master, systemd, sysvinit
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Updated GRUB to 1.98

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  • BOOK/final-system/x86/grub.xml

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    3131    </note>
    3232
    33     <para os="p1">GRUB has an issue that can cause it to segfault when you
    34     try to configure a drive to utilize GRUB on x86_64 and building machines. The following
    35     patch fixes this problem:</para>
    36 
    37 <screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&grub-use_mmap-patch;</userinput></screen>
    38 
    39     <para os="p3">GRUB has an issue where it sometimes doesn't detect
    40     the disk geometry correctly when used with Linux 2.6, resulting
    41     in the error message <literal>Error 24: Attempt to access block outside
    42     partition</literal>. The following patch contains a fix for this issue
    43     as well as various fixes for raid controllers and support for the
    44     new Intel Mac:</para>
    45 
    46 <screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&grub-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
    47 
    48     <para os="p5">By default, GRUB doesn't support ext2 filesystems with 256-byte inodes. Fix this by applying the following patch:</para>
    49 
    50 <screen os="p6"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&grub-256byte_inode-patch;</userinput></screen>
    51 
    52     <para os="p7">By default, GRUB doesn't support ext4 filesystems. Fix this by applying the following patch:</para>
    53 
    54 <screen os="p8"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&grub-ext4-patch;</userinput></screen>
    55 
    56     <para os="a">This package is known to have issues when its default optimization
    57     flags (including the <option>-march</option> and <option>-mcpu</option>
    58     options) are changed. If any environment variables that override default
    59     optimizations have been defined, such as <envar>CFLAGS</envar> and
    60     <envar>CXXFLAGS</envar>, unset them when building GRUB.</para>
    61 
    62     <para os="b">Prepare GRUB for compilation:</para>
    63 
    64 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
     33    <note os="n2">
     34      <para>This package is known to have issues when its default optimization
     35      flags (including the <option>-march</option> and <option>-mcpu</option>
     36      options) are changed. If any environment variables that override default
     37      optimizations have been defined, such as <envar>CFLAGS</envar> and
     38      <envar>CXXFLAGS</envar>, unset them when building GRUB.</para>
     39    </note>
     40
     41    <para os="a">Prepare GRUB for compilation:</para>
     42
     43<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
     44    --sysconfdir=/etc</userinput></screen>
    6545
    6646    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
    … …  
    6848<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
    6949
    70     <para os="e">To test the results, issue:
     50    <para os="e">To test GRUB you must have QEMU installed and then, issue:
    7151    <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
    7252
    7353    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
    7454
    75 <screen os="g"><userinput>make install
    76 mkdir -pv /boot/grub
    77 cp -v /usr/lib/grub/*/stage{1,2} /boot/grub</userinput></screen>
    78 
    79     <para os="h">The directory in
    80     <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/grub</filename> (its name depends
    81     on your arch) contains a number of <filename>*stage1_5</filename> files,
    82     different ones for different file systems. Review the files available and
    83     copy the appropriate ones to the <filename
    84     class="directory">/boot/grub</filename> directory. Most users will
    85     copy the <filename>e2fs_stage1_5</filename> and/or
    86     <filename>reiserfs_stage1_5</filename> files.</para>
     55<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
     56
     57  </sect2>
     58
     59  <sect2 id="conf-grub" role="configuration">
     60    <title>Configuring GRUB</title>
     61
     62    <indexterm zone="conf-grub">
     63      <primary sortas="a-GRUB">GRUB</primary>
     64    <secondary>configuring</secondary></indexterm>
     65
     66    <indexterm zone="conf-grub">
     67      <primary sortas="e-/etc/default/grub">/etc/default/grub</primary>
     68    </indexterm>
     69
     70    <para>Now that grub is installed, we need to configure the defaults that
     71    will be used to generate the configuration after we install the kernel.
     72    Create this file with the following:</para>
     73
     74<screen><userinput>install -m755 -dv /etc/default
     75cat &gt; /etc/default/grub &lt;&lt; "EOF"
     76<literal># Begin /etc/default/grub
     77
     78GRUB_DEFAULT=0
     79#GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
     80GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=
     81GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false
     82GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
     83GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Cross-LFS
     84
     85GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
     86GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
     87
     88#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
     89#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
     90
     91#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
     92#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY=true
     93
     94#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
     95
     96#GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true
     97
     98# End /etc/default/grub</literal>
     99EOF</userinput></screen>
     100
     101    <variablelist>
     102      <title>The meaning of the above options and possible alternate
     103      values:</title>
     104
     105    <varlistentry>
     106      <term><parameter>GRUB_DEFAULT=</parameter></term>
     107      <listitem>
     108        <para>Write Me</para>
     109      </listitem>
     110    </varlistentry>
     111
     112    <varlistentry>
     113      <term><parameter>GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=</parameter></term>
     114      <listitem>
     115        <para>Write Me</para>
     116      </listitem>
     117    </varlistentry>
     118
     119    <varlistentry>
     120      <term><parameter>GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=</parameter></term>
     121      <listitem>
     122        <para>Write Me</para>
     123      </listitem>
     124    </varlistentry>
     125
     126    <varlistentry>
     127      <term><parameter>GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=</parameter></term>
     128      <listitem>
     129        <para>Write Me</para>
     130      </listitem>
     131    </varlistentry>
     132
     133    <varlistentry>
     134      <term><parameter>GRUB_TIMEOUT=</parameter></term>
     135      <listitem>
     136        <para>Write Me</para>
     137      </listitem>
     138    </varlistentry>
     139
     140    <varlistentry>
     141      <term><parameter>GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=</parameter></term>
     142      <listitem>
     143        <para>Write Me</para>
     144      </listitem>
     145    </varlistentry>
     146
     147    <varlistentry>
     148      <term><parameter>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=</parameter></term>
     149      <listitem>
     150        <para>Write Me</para>
     151      </listitem>
     152    </varlistentry>
     153
     154    <varlistentry>
     155      <term><parameter>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=</parameter></term>
     156      <listitem>
     157        <para>Write Me</para>
     158      </listitem>
     159    </varlistentry>
     160
     161    <varlistentry>
     162      <term><parameter>GRUB_TERMINAL=</parameter></term>
     163      <listitem>
     164        <para>Write Me</para>
     165      </listitem>
     166    </varlistentry>
     167
     168    <varlistentry>
     169      <term><parameter>GRUB_GFXMODE=</parameter></term>
     170      <listitem>
     171        <para>Write Me</para>
     172      </listitem>
     173    </varlistentry>
     174
     175    <varlistentry>
     176      <term><parameter>GRUB_DEFAULT=</parameter></term>
     177      <listitem>
     178        <para>Write Me</para>
     179      </listitem>
     180    </varlistentry>
     181
     182    <varlistentry>
     183      <term><parameter>GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=</parameter></term>
     184      <listitem>
     185        <para>Write Me</para>
     186      </listitem>
     187    </varlistentry>
     188
     189    <varlistentry>
     190      <term><parameter>GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY=</parameter></term>
     191      <listitem>
     192        <para>Write Me</para>
     193      </listitem>
     194    </varlistentry>
     195
     196    <varlistentry>
     197      <term><parameter>GRUB_INIT_TUNE=</parameter></term>
     198      <listitem>
     199        <para>Write Me</para>
     200      </listitem>
     201    </varlistentry>
     202
     203    <varlistentry>
     204      <term><parameter>GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=</parameter></term>
     205      <listitem>
     206        <para>Write Me</para>
     207      </listitem>
     208    </varlistentry>
     209
     210    </variablelist>
    87211
    88212  </sect2>
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