grub2: Obtaining and Building GRUB
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1 Appendix A How to obtain and build GRUB
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1 *Caution:* GRUB requires binutils-2.9.1.0.23 or later because the
1 GNU assembler has been changed so that it can produce real 16bits
1 machine code between 2.9.1 and 2.9.1.0.x. See
1 <http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/>, to obtain information on how
1 to get the latest version.
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1 GRUB is available from the GNU alpha archive site
1 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub> or any of its mirrors. The file will be
1 named grub-version.tar.gz. The current version is 2.03, so the file you
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1 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.03.tar.gz>
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1 To unbundle GRUB use the instruction:
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1 zcat grub-2.03.tar.gz | tar xvf -
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1 which will create a directory called 'grub-2.03' with all the
1 sources. You can look at the file 'INSTALL' for detailed instructions
1 on how to build and install GRUB, but you should be able to just do:
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1 cd grub-2.03
1 ./configure
1 make install
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1 Also, the latest version is available using Git. See
1 <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-download.html> for more
1 information.
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