A.23. Grub

For installation instructions see Section 6.45.

A.23.1. Official Download Location

Grub (0.93):
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/grub/

Grub Gcc33 Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/grub-0.93-gcc33-1.patch

A.23.2. Contents of Grub

The Grub package contains a bootloader.

Installed programs: grub, grub-install, grub-md5-crypt, grub-terminfo and mbchk

A.23.3.

A.23.4. Short descriptions

grub is the GRand Unified Bootloader's command shell.

grub-install installs GRUB on the given device.

grub-md5-crypt encrypts a password in MD5 format.

grub-terminfo generates a terminfo command from a terminfo name. It can be used if you have an uncommon terminal.

mbchk checks the format of a multiboot kernel.

A.23.5.

A.23.6. Grub Installation Dependencies

Grub depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed.

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