10.54. GRUB-0.97

10.54.1. Installation de GRUB

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-0.97-fixes-1.patch

By default, GRUB doesn't support ext2 filesystems with 256-byte inodes. Fix this by applying the following patch:

patch -Np1 -i ../grub-0.97-256byte_inode-1.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.