Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Thursday, 7 December 2017 12:04:08 GMT Kai Peter wrote:
> On 2017-12-06 13:28, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Sunday, 3 December 2017 15:12:21 GMT Mick wrote:
> >> On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote:

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> > Sys-boot/grub-0.97-r17 compiled and installed all right, as a package,
> > but when I went to install it to the MBR I got an error complaining of a
> > mismatch or corruption in stage X. The wording was something like that,
> > and I forget the value of X. There was no mention of disk space, and the
> > boot partition is 2GB, so I think it's something else.
> > 
> > Installing sys-boot/grub-static-0.97-r12 instead went smoothly, so I've
> > left it like that for the moment.
> > 
> > Does the team think I should go back to grub-0.97-r17, take proper
> > records and file a bug report?
> 
> I question if this makes sense for a masked ebuild.

Masked? Not here, it isn't.

> I'm curious about what was discussed until now. The issue seems to be
> quite simple to solve.
> 
> The build fails but portage/gcc does give clear info in this case: the
> option "-nopie" have to be changed to "-no-pie". This option is set in
> 860_all_grub-0.97-pie.patch. Here is a diff:

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Yes, this has been made clear already, but it's not the problem I had.

> Maybe the easiest way is to create a new grub-patches package, but there
> are other ways to change this too. I'm expected the upstream will change
> this soon - within the remaining 5 weeks ;-).
> 
> Another thing is I question that grub-legacy have to be rebuild at all.
> I'm pretty sure it is save to remove it from the world file or comment
> it out.

Then the first emerge -c will remove it from the system.

> Anyhow, upgrading to grub2 is IMHO the right way. There are some
> examples given in parallel threads how to write a grub.cfg by hand - and
> keep it simple :-). Then nothing else then the grub2 binary and
> grub2-install is required usually.

Long-standing readers may remember that I have reasons for avoiding grub-2. 
I still think it's a monstrosity and I'd much prefer never to have to 
wrestle with it again.

On the other hand, I suppose I could have another go at writing my own 
grub.cfg, just for the one little Atom box, if only for a quiet life.

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Regards,
Peter.