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<sect1 id="ch06-grub" xreflabel="Grub">
<title>Installing Grub-&grub-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="grub.html" dir="chapter06"?>

<para>The Grub package contains the GRand Unified Bootloader.</para>

<screen>&buildtime; &grub-time;
&diskspace; &grub-compsize;</screen>

&aa-grub-down;
&aa-grub-dep;

<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of Grub</title>

<para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its default
optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Therefore, if you
have defined any environment variables that override default optimizations,
such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting them when building
Grub.</para>

<para>First fix a compilation problem with GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/2 long/2/' stage2/fsys_reiserfs.c</userinput></screen>

<para>Now prepare Grub for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>And install it:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install
mkdir /boot/grub
cp /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage{1,2} /boot/grub</userinput></screen>

<para>Replace <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> with whatever
directory is appropriate for your hardware.</para>

<para>The <filename class="directory">i386-pc</filename> directory also
contains a number of <filename>*stage1_5</filename> files, different ones
for different filesystems. Have a look at the ones available and copy the
appropriate ones to the <filename class="directory">/boot/grub</filename>
directory. Most people will copy the <filename>e2fs_stage1_5</filename>
and/or <filename>reiserfs_stage1_5</filename> files.</para>

</sect2>

&aa-grub-shortdesc;
&aa-grub-desc;

</sect1>