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From: Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 17:03:41
Message-Id: 4defba24-c85f-4ffd-c5b5-fc0d631d28fa@verizon.net
1 I looked for more information on GRUB form upstream but, on first
2 impression, it's been an abandoned project since 2012... Apparently some
3 users have posted patches to things like the invalid sector size problem
4 but the project has been deaf to these problems and has done nothing
5 whatsoever. =(
6
7 I thought maybe I could go simple and use something like elilo, The
8 manual was written in moonspeak, it was very missleading and had lots of
9 omissions, and misdirection. I downloaded the 2,200 page specification
10 for EFI an quickly came to realize that the Elilo documentation was a
11 geyser of bullshit. I think it's going to be my new standard example of
12 how awful linux documentation is.
13
14 Seriously, It deserves a few hundred more pages of ragging, and flaming,
15 and rage-ing but I've got a piece of junk to boot. =|
16
17
18 I don't know where Gentoo is getting it's source for Grub...
19
20
21 Apparently the git version of Grub was abandoned in 2015, as far as I
22 can tell... I'm trying to build it from source. As is appropriate the
23 git repository doesn't have the git scripts, I tried running autoreconf
24 on it but got error messages...
25
26 I cleared a few of them but I'm like:
27
28 ##########################################
29 atg@localhost ~/source/grub $ autoreconf
30 autoreconf-2.69: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not
31 AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
32 automake-1.15: error: cannot open < Makefile.util.am: No such file or
33 directory
34 autoreconf-2.69: automake failed with exit status: 1
35 atg@localhost ~/source/grub $
36 ##########################################
37
38 Is there a way to ebuild a "grub-git" and produce a grub install with
39 version = date of most recent commit on active fork?
40
41 --
42 Strange Game.
43 The only winning move is not to play.
44
45 Powers are not rights.

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!! Michael Morak <michael.morak@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!! Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!! Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!! Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com>