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Syslinux family has been my go to boot loader |
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2017, 4:12 PM Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> On 27/01/17 01:03, Alan Grimes wrote: |
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> > I looked for more information on GRUB form upstream but, on first |
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> > impression, it's been an abandoned project since 2012... Apparently some |
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> > users have posted patches to things like the invalid sector size problem |
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> > but the project has been deaf to these problems and has done nothing |
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> > whatsoever. =( |
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> > I thought maybe I could go simple and use something like elilo, The |
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> > manual was written in moonspeak, it was very missleading and had lots of |
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> > omissions, and misdirection. I downloaded the 2,200 page specification |
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> > for EFI an quickly came to realize that the Elilo documentation was a |
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> > geyser of bullshit. I think it's going to be my new standard example of |
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> > how awful linux documentation is. |
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> > Seriously, It deserves a few hundred more pages of ragging, and flaming, |
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> > and rage-ing but I've got a piece of junk to boot. =| |
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> > I don't know where Gentoo is getting it's source for Grub... |
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> > Apparently the git version of Grub was abandoned in 2015, as far as I |
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> > can tell... I'm trying to build it from source. As is appropriate the |
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> > git repository doesn't have the git scripts, I tried running autoreconf |
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> > on it but got error messages... |
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> > I cleared a few of them but I'm like: |
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> > ########################################## |
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> > atg@localhost ~/source/grub $ autoreconf |
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> > autoreconf-2.69: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not |
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> > AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION |
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> > automake-1.15: error: cannot open < Makefile.util.am: No such file or |
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> > directory |
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> > autoreconf-2.69: automake failed with exit status: 1 |
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> > atg@localhost ~/source/grub $ |
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> > ########################################## |
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> > Is there a way to ebuild a "grub-git" and produce a grub install with |
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> > version = date of most recent commit on active fork? |
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> I tried grub2 and dumped it for "rEFit" - ended up a lot easier and more |
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> robust. |
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> This was on an apple air laptop a few years back, and currently on a MS |
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> surface 4. |
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> BillK |
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