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Tomáš Chvátal posted on Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:28:26 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> I updated the grub2 ebuilds in main tree and took maintainership of |
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> grub2. |
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Thanks. |
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I've been wondering about trying grub2, but have some questions. |
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What is needed to compile it? Specifically, my main machine is ~amd64 |
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no-multilib and runs grub-static for grub1 (0.97-r10) Should 64-bit gcc |
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without multilib be able to compile grub2, or is 32-bit gcc needed? |
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If 32-bit is needed, I should be able to build it in my 32-bit netbook |
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build-image chroot, but obviously I don't want it trying to do anything |
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funny like trying to load into boot records, from there. |
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The grub-static-0.97-rX tarball is simply a binpkged grub-0.97-rX built |
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and binpkged on a 32-bit machine, with an ebuild that extracts and |
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installs the binaries from the binpkg. Could the same technique be used |
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for grub-static-2? |
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Slotted is good, as on my main machine I run a quad-disk md/RAID set, |
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normally all four in RAID-1, but for /boot, only two in RAID-1, with a |
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second RAID-1 for the other two, with the idea of experimenting with |
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grub-2 there and selecting which to boot from the BIOS. BTW, does grub- |
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static slot nicely with it as well? |
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Of course, for this to work, I'll presumably have to install the binpkg |
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built in the 32-bit chroot slotted with grub-static on my main machine, |
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then manually install to the second /boot after mounting it, and manually |
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install to those disks boot records. |
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grub2 supports gpt I'm told. I'm 100% gpt on both systems (main and |
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netbook) and my bootable thumbdrives as well, all using grub-static at |
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this point, but both systems are still conventional BIOS. All bootable |
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drives have both a legacy BIOS boot partition (1024 KB) and an EFI system |
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reserved partition (127 MB, thus 128 MB for the two of them combined), |
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both empty/reserved at this point, in addition to the normal md/RAID-1 |
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/boot partition. Again, they're all GPT but BIOS booting. Where's the |
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optimal place to install grub2 in this setup and how do I tell it to do |
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so, and/or tell the ebuild to not try to install to any boot records when |
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I'm simply building/installing it in the 32-bit netbook build-image |
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chroot? |
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Some of this might be in your devspace docs already, but I doubt it all |
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is. I could probably help with them as the answers are worked out. |
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I'm still posting this to the (devel, not announce) list as I imagine |
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others will find your answers at global level useful as well and getting |
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some discussion into the public list archives is likely to be useful, |
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given the dearth of info I've seen on grub2 in Gentoo so far. However, |
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taking it to bugs or to private mail will probably be better at some |
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point. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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