The Grub package contains the Grand Unified Bootloader.
Approximate build time: 0.2 SBU
Required disk space: 10 MB
Grub installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed
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.
Note that the test results will always show the error “ufs2_stage1_5 is too big.” This is due to a compiler issue, but can be ignored unless you plan to boot from an UFS partition. The partitions are normally only used by Sun workstations.
Install the package:
make install
mkdir /boot/grub
cp /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage{1,2} /boot/grub
Replace i386-pc with whatever directory is appropriate for the hardware in use.
The i386-pc directory 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-terminfo, and mbchk
The Grand Unified Bootloader's command shell
Installs GRUB on the given device
Encrypts a password in MD5 format
Generates a terminfo command from a terminfo name; it can be employed if an unknown terminal is being used
Checks the format of a multi-boot kernel