Syslinux family has been my go to boot loader On Thu, Jan 26, 2017, 4:12 PM Bill Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 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 > > >
