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? -- Strange Game. The only winning move is not to play. Powers are not rights.
