The GRUB package contains the GRand Unified Bootloader.
GRUB has an issue where it sometimes doesn't detect the disk geometry correctly when used with Linux 2.6, resulting in the error message Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition. The following patch contains a fix for this issue as well as various fixes for raid controllers and support for the new Intel Mac:
patch -Np1 -i ../grub-0.97-fixes-1.patch
GRUB has an issue that can cause it to segfault when you try to configure a drive to utilize GRUB on x86_64 machines. The following patch fixes this problem:
patch -Np1 -i ../grub-0.97-use_mmap-1.patch
Prepare GRUB for compilation:
CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr
Compile the package:
make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Install the package:
make install mkdir -v /boot/grub cp -v /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-pc/stage{1,2} /boot/grub
Replace x86_64-pc with whatever directory is appropriate for the hardware in use.
The x86_64-pc directory contains a number of *stage1_5 files, different ones for different file systems. Review the files available and copy the appropriate ones to the /boot/grub directory. Most users will copy the e2fs_stage1_5 and/or reiserfs_stage1_5 files.