BOOK/chapter06/grub.xml

   1 <sect1 id="ch-system-grub" xreflabel="Grub">
   2 <title>Installing Grub-&grub-version;</title>
   3 <?dbhtml filename="grub.html" dir="chapter06"?>
   4
   5 <para>The Grub package contains the GRand Unified Bootloader.</para>
   6
   7 <screen>&buildtime; &grub-time;
   8 &diskspace; &grub-compsize;</screen>
   9
  10 &aa-grub-down;
  11 &aa-grub-dep;
  12
  13 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
  14
  15 <sect2>
  16 <title>Installation of Grub</title>
  17
  18 <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its default
  19 optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Therefore, if you
  20 have defined any environment variables that override default optimizations,
  21 such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting them when building
  22 Grub.</para>
  23
  24 <para>First fix a compilation problem with GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
  25
  26 <screen><userinput>sed -i 's/2 long/2/' stage2/fsys_reiserfs.c</userinput></screen>
  27
  28 <para>Now prepare Grub for compilation:</para>
  29
  30 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
  31
  32 <para>Compile the package:</para>
  33
  34 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  35
  36 <para>And install it:</para>
  37
  38 <screen><userinput>make install
  39 mkdir /boot/grub
  40 cp /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage{1,2} /boot/grub</userinput></screen>
  41
  42 <para>Replace <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> with whatever
  43 directory is appropriate for your hardware.</para>
  44
  45 <para>The <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> directory also
  46 contains a number of <filename>*stage1_5</filename> files, different ones
  47 for different file systems. Have a look at the ones available and copy the
  48 appropriate ones to the <filename class="directory">/boot/grub</filename>
  49 directory. Most people will copy the <filename>e2fs_stage1_5</filename>
  50 and/or <filename>reiserfs_stage1_5</filename> files.</para>
  51
  52 </sect2>
  53
  54 &aa-grub-shortdesc;
  55 &aa-grub-desc;
  56
  57 </sect1>
  58