Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!

[Bill Kenworthy]

On 27/01/17 01:03, Alan Grimes wrote:
> I looked for more information on GRUB form upstream but, on first
> impression, it's been an abandoned project since 2012... Apparently some
> users have posted patches to things like the invalid sector size problem
> but the project has been deaf to these problems and has done nothing
> whatsoever. =(
>
> I thought maybe I could go simple and use something like elilo, The
> manual was written in moonspeak, it was very missleading and had lots of
> omissions, and misdirection. I downloaded the 2,200 page specification
> for EFI an quickly came to realize that the Elilo documentation was a
> geyser of bullshit. I think it's going to be my new standard example of
> how awful linux documentation is.
>
> Seriously, It deserves a few hundred more pages of ragging, and flaming,
> and rage-ing but I've got a piece of junk to boot. =|
>
>
> I don't know where Gentoo is getting it's source for Grub...
>
>
> Apparently the git version of Grub was abandoned in 2015, as far as I
> can tell... I'm trying to build it from source. As is appropriate the
> git repository doesn't have the git scripts, I tried running autoreconf
> on it but got error messages...
>
> I cleared a few of them but I'm like:
>
> ##########################################
> atg@localhost ~/source/grub $ autoreconf
> autoreconf-2.69: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not
> AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
> automake-1.15: error: cannot open < Makefile.util.am: No such file or
> directory
> autoreconf-2.69: automake failed with exit status: 1
> atg@localhost ~/source/grub $
> ##########################################
>
> Is there a way to ebuild a "grub-git" and produce a grub install with
> version = date of most recent commit on active fork?
>

I tried grub2 and dumped it for "rEFit" - ended up a lot easier and more
robust.

This was on an apple air laptop a few years back, and currently on a MS
surface 4.

BillK