[gentoo-user] Re: What is the smart move on boot-loader

[Harry Putnam]

Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes:

> On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:34:34 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Currently, what is the wise move on a fresh install (gentoo as vbox
>> guest on a solaris host (Openindiana 151_a9)), as concerns installing
>> a boot-loader?
>
> GRUB2 for a BIOS based system, that or Gummiboot for UEFI firmware.

Whoops... a failure I'm not clear how to solve has occured.

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| root # eix ^grub$
| * sys-boot/grub
|      Available versions:  
|      (0)    0.97-r12 (~)0.97-r13 (~)0.97-r14
|      (2)    2.00_p5107-r2^t 2.02_beta2-r3^t (~)2.02_beta2-r6^t **9999-r1^t
|        {custom-cflags debug device-mapper doc efiemu libzfs mount +multislot ncurses netboot nls sdl static test truetype GRUB_PLATFORMS="coreboot efi-32 efi-64 emu ieee1275 loongson multiboot pc qemu qemu-mips xen yeeloong"}
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emerge -v grub
(My ~x86 setting brings in sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6

Perhaps I just need to back down to a non-beta version?

I'm trying the next lower version... that is still a beta version as I
write.. Maybe better end result... will post

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Tail of compile:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_MESSAGES = "C",
        LC_COLLATE = "C",
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o build-grub-mkfont -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2/include  -DGRUB_FILE=\"util/grub-mkfont.c\" -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2 -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2 -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2/include -I./include -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2/grub-core/lib/libgcrypt-grub/src/ -DGRUB_MKFONT=1 -DGRUB_BUILD=1 -DGRUB_UTIL=1 -DGRUB_BUILD_PROGRAM_NAME=\"build-grub-mkfont\" /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2/util/grub-mkfont.c /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2/grub-core/unidata.c /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2/grub-core/kern/emu/misc.c /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2/util/misc.c -I/usr/include/freetype2 -lfreetype
./build-grub-mkfont -o unicode.pf2 ./unifont.pcf || (rm -f unicode.pf2; exit 1)
can't open file ./unifont.pcf, index 0: error 2: unknown file format
./build-grub-mkfont -o ascii.pf2 ./unifont.pcf -r 0x0-0x7f,0x2190-0x2193,0x2501-0x251B || (rm -f ascii.pf2; exit 1)
can't open file ./unifont.pcf, index 0: error 2: unknown file format
./build-grub-mkfont -o euro.pf2 ./unifont.pcf -r 0x0-0x4ff,0x1e00-0x1fff,0x2190-0x2193,0x2501-0x251B || (rm -f euro.pf2; exit 1)
can't open file ./unifont.pcf, index 0: error 2: unknown file format
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o build-grub-gen-asciih -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2/include  -DGRUB_FILE=\"util/grub-gen-asciih.c\" -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2 -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2 -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2/include -I./include -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2/grub-core/lib/libgcrypt-grub/src/ -DGRUB_MKFONT=1 -DGRUB_BUILD=1 -DGRUB_UTIL=1 /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2/util/grub-gen-asciih.c -I/usr/include/freetype2 -lfreetype -Wall -Werror
./build-grub-gen-asciih ./unifont.pcf ascii.h || (rm -f ascii.h; exit 1)
can't open file ./unifont.pcf, index 0: error 2: unknown file format
Makefile:13381: recipe for target 'ascii.h' failed
make[2]: *** [ascii.h] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2-guessed'
Makefile:11531: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6/work/grub-2.02~beta2-guessed'
Makefile:3927: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
 * ERROR: sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r6::gentoo failed (compile phase):
 *   emake failed

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