Package Details: grub-legacy 0.97-27

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/grub-legacy.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: grub-legacy
Description: A GNU multiboot boot loader
Upstream URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Licenses: GPL
Conflicts: grub
Submitter: pressh
Maintainer: sperg512 (Akiko)
Last Packager: Akiko
Votes: 80
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2012-07-20 09:42 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2021-05-27 07:43 (UTC)

Latest Comments

sperg512 commented on 2020-11-19 02:42 (UTC)

Does anyone still even use this?

yar commented on 2018-08-07 07:12 (UTC)

I suspect the problem here is a gcc update. I would remove i686 from $arch, add lib32-glibc to depends, and see if other distros have released patches to work with newer gcc.

NuSkool commented on 2018-04-01 19:58 (UTC) (edited on 2018-04-01 20:02 (UTC) by NuSkool)

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().

=============================================================

$ sudo arch-nspawn $CHROOT/cody pacman -Syu

:: Synchronizing package databases...

core 130.2 KiB 256K/s 00:01 [#######################################] 100%

extra 1603.6 KiB 280K/s 00:06 [#######################################] 100%

community 4.2 MiB 398K/s 00:11 [#######################################] 100%

multilib 170.7 KiB 365K/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%

:: Starting full system upgrade...

........

=============================================================

$ makechrootpkg -c -r $CHROOT

........

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

/build/grub-legacy/src/grub-0.97/missing: Unknown `--is-lightweight' option

Try `/build/grub-legacy/src/grub-0.97/missing --help' for more information

configure: WARNING: 'missing' script is too old or missing

checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p

checking for gawk... gawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking whether make supports nested variables... yes

checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no

checking for gcc... gcc

checking for gcc... (cached) gcc

checking whether the C compiler works... no

configure: error: in `/build/grub-legacy/src/grub-0.97':

configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

See `config.log' for more details

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().

Aborting...

==> ERROR: Build failed, check /home/cody/chroot/cody/build

JonnyJD commented on 2016-04-17 13:29 (UTC)

I am getting undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail' on current Arch which I could fix with adding " -fno-stack-protector" to CFLAGs in the PKGBUILD

commented on 2013-08-10 11:55 (UTC)

I need to have grub2 and grub-legacy installed side-by-side. Due to file conflicts, I assume the easiest way is to have grub-legacy installed in separate directory, say /usr/share/grub-legacy (which would serve as a / for this package). Could somebody please advise me how to do it with minimal effort, i.e. so that scripts, configurations, etc. would still work relative to new root? Specifically, I was looking into using "PREFIX", but I do not understand how the entire build chain works.

mhellwig commented on 2013-06-04 20:51 (UTC)

oh. I found what the problem was, had to do with using the SOL (serial over lan) from a Supermicro-board .. for the menu.lst, that means you should NOT specify terminal serial .. because that apparently doesn't work. after removing that line, it now works. yay!

ava1ar commented on 2013-06-04 20:12 (UTC)

mhellwig, I was in same situation some time ago during previous update of grub-legacy package. Spent some time trying to fix it and gave up finally - migrated to grub2. Actually I planned this migration earlier, because going to upgrade my laptop to something modern, which will came with EFI I suspect. So, maybe go with grub2 too?

mhellwig commented on 2013-06-04 20:05 (UTC)

so I've (re)installed this _after_ doing the filesystem switch, figuring then the symlinks for /bin and /sbin already exist and so installing there wouldn't be so bad since then it'd just get written to /usr/bin anyway. First attempt to boot: imagine my surprise when the system wouldn't come up because grub-legacy upon installation uses its own menu.lst and moved mine to menu.lst.pacsave. So wrong root, no cryptdevices and so forth. After fixing that manually (hitting "e" in the grub menu, typing in what I had written down somewhere) the system came up. Then I figured I want this to boot by itself (obviously) so I moved my old menu.lst.pacsave to menu.lst and hit reboot. And now this thing won't boot. Like, at all. It hangs at "GRUB loading stage 1.5 GRUB loading, please wait... <blinking cursor>" And that's it. So next step I got myself a grml iso (live-CD) and powercycled and used my ipmi console to mount that virtually and boot from it (yeah, it's a remote server ..) Mounted my ARCH system, chrooted to it, re-ran grub-install to /dev/sda, that went through without error. Reboot, system still won't come up, same error as above. Hangs at the "loading grub..." stage, no error code. What could be wrong? This system needs to be up half an hour ago ...

kalib commented on 2013-06-04 17:45 (UTC)

Worked just fine now. ;] thanks

kalib commented on 2013-06-04 17:25 (UTC)

Am I the only one who can't get it to work? .... .... clocal-1.13/substnot.m4' '/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/tar.m4' 'acinclude.m4' --trace='AC_DEFUN:$f::$n::${::}%' --trace='AC_DEFUN_ONCE:$f::$n::${::}%' --trace='AU_DEFUN:$f::$n::${::}%' --trace='_AM_AUTOCONF_VERSION:$f::$n::${::}%' --trace='AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR_TRACE:$f::$n::${::}%' --trace='AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR:$f::$n::${::}%' --trace='_AM_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS:$f::$n::${::}%' --trace='grub_CHECK_USCORE_END_SYMBOL:$f::$n' --trace='grub_ASM_PREFIX_REQUIREMENT:$f::$n' --trace='_AM_DEPENDENCIES:$f::$n' --trace='grub_DEFINE_FILE:$f::$n' --trace='AM_SET_DEPDIR:$f::$n' --trace='_AM_MANGLE_OPTION:$f::$n' --trace='AM_PROG_INSTALL_STRIP:$f::$n' --trace='grub_CHECK_EDATA_SYMBOL:$f::$n' --trace='_AM_PROG_TAR:$f::$n' --trace='_AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE:$f::$n' --trace='AM_AUX_DIR_EXPAND:$f::$n' --trace='AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION:$f::$n' --trace='grub_CHECK_USCORE_START_SYMBOL:$f::$n' --trace='AM_SANITY_CHECK:$f::$n' --trace='AM_DEP_TRACK:$f::$n' --trace='AM_SILENT_RULES:$f::$n' --trace='AM_MAINTAINER_MODE:$f::$n' --trace='AM_MAKE_INCLUDE:$f::$n' --trace='AM_SET_LEADING_DOT:$f::$n' --trace='_AM_IF_OPTION:$f::$n' --trace='grub_PROG_OBJCOPY_ABSOLUTE:$f::$n' --trace='AM_SET_CURRENT_AUTOMAKE_VERSION:$f::$n' --trace='AM_MISSING_HAS_RUN:$f::$n' --trace='AM_OUTPUT_DEPENDENCY_COMMANDS:$f::$n' --trace='grub_ASM_USCORE:$f::$n' --trace='_AM_SET_OPTION:$f::$n' --trace='grub_ASM_ABSOLUTE_WITHOUT_ASTERISK:$f::$n' --trace='AM_RUN_LOG:$f::$n' --trace='AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE:$f::$n' --trace='grub_ASM_ADDR32:$f::$n' --trace='_AM_OUTPUT_DEPENDENCY_COMMANDS:$f::$n' --trace='AM_PROG_AS:$f::$n' --trace='AM_PROG_CC_C_O:$f::$n' --trace='grub_CHECK_END_SYMBOL:$f::$n' --trace='grub_CHECK_START_SYMBOL:$f::$n' --trace='_AC_AM_CONFIG_HEADER_HOOK:$f::$n' --trace='AM_CONDITIONAL:$f::$n' --trace='AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE:$f::$n' --trace='AM_MISSING_PROG:$f::$n' --trace='grub_CHECK_USCORE_EDATA_SYMBOL:$f::$n' --trace='_AM_SET_OPTIONS:$f::$n' --trace='grub_CHECK_USCORE_USCORE_BSS_START_SYMBOL:$f::$n' --trace='AM_PROG_INSTALL_SH:$f::$n' configure.ac |: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado ==> ERROR: A fail happened on build(). Aborting... ==> ERROR: MAKEPKG couldn't compile grub-legacy.

simon04 commented on 2013-06-04 16:51 (UTC)

0.97-25: {/bin,/sbin,/usr/sbin} adaptions …

bernarcher commented on 2013-06-04 16:38 (UTC)

Is it really necessary to install install-grub in /usr/sbin? It would fit in /usr/bin as well. There is no /usr/sbin on the default PATH set by the recent /etc/profile changes.

darose commented on 2013-06-04 15:43 (UTC)

simon04 said he'd take it on

buttons commented on 2013-06-04 15:29 (UTC)

Would someone like to adopt and update the pkgbuild for /usr/bin?

divineant commented on 2013-06-04 12:01 (UTC)

No more /bin/ /sbin/ and /usr/sbin: https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries-move-to-usrbin-requiring-update-intervention/ --- a/PKGBUILD +++ b/PKGBUILD @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ pkgname=grub-legacy _srcname=grub pkgver=0.97 -pkgrel=24 +pkgrel=25 pkgdesc="A GNU multiboot boot loader" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('GPL') @@ -76,10 +76,12 @@ build() { patch -Np1 -i ../040_all_grub-0.96-nxstack.patch # patch from frugalware to make it boot when more than 2GB ram installed patch -Np1 -i ../05-grub-0.97-initrdaddr.diff - CFLAGS="-static -fno-strict-aliasing" ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --sbindir=/sbin \ + CFLAGS="-static -fno-strict-aliasing" ./configure --prefix=/usr \ + --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/bin \ --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info else - CFLAGS="-fno-strict-aliasing" ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --sbindir=/sbin \ + CFLAGS="-fno-strict-aliasing" ./configure --prefix=/usr \ + --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/bin \ --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info fi } @@ -90,6 +92,6 @@ package() { CFLAGS= make make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install install -D -m644 ../menu.lst ${pkgdir}/boot/grub/menu.lst - install -D -m755 ../install-grub ${pkgdir}/sbin/install-grub + install -D -m755 ../install-grub ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/install-grub }

ava1ar commented on 2013-06-04 09:21 (UTC)

You need to enable multilib repo, before building this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multilib

mhellwig commented on 2013-06-04 09:18 (UTC)

this (as well as the alternative PKGBUILD mentioned below) has a build dependency on gcc-multilib. which doesn't exist? I'm confused.

commented on 2013-06-04 04:39 (UTC)

I just built this successfully in a clean chroot on x86_64, with the adapted PKGBUILD from simon04. I used multilib-build, from devtools. Out of curiosity, I'd like to know something about the setups of the people who are seeing the start_eltorito.S errors. What architecture are you using, and how are you building the package?

simon04 commented on 2013-06-03 18:46 (UTC)

Here's an adapted PKGBUILD: https://gist.github.com/simon04/5700317

solsticedhiver commented on 2013-06-03 14:37 (UTC)

I got this error gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../stage1 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wunused -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -falign-functions=1 -Wundef -fno-builtin -nostdinc -DSUPPORT_SERIAL=1 -DSUPPORT_HERCULES=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../stage1 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wunused -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -falign-functions=1 -Wundef -m32 -static -fno-strict-aliasing -MT start_eltorito_exec-start_eltorito.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/start_eltorito_exec-start_eltorito.Tpo -c -o start_eltorito_exec-start_eltorito.o `test -f 'start_eltorito.S' || echo './'`start_eltorito.S start.S: Assembler messages: start.S:399: Error: missing ')' start.S:399: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `k' make[3]: *** [start_exec-start.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... start_eltorito.S: Assembler messages: start_eltorito.S:320: Error: missing ')' start_eltorito.S:320: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `k' make[3]: *** [start_eltorito_exec-start_eltorito.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/solstice/abs/grub-legacy/src/grub-0.97/stage2' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/solstice/abs/grub-legacy/src/grub-0.97/stage2' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/solstice/abs/grub-legacy/src/grub-0.97' make: *** [all] Error 2

mrbit commented on 2013-06-03 12:47 (UTC)

Binaries move to /usr/bin requiring update intervention

Lone_Wolf commented on 2013-05-31 10:19 (UTC)

namcap grub-legacy-0.97-24-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz grub-legacy W: File (bin/) exists in a non-standard directory. grub-legacy W: File (bin/mbchk) exists in a non-standard directory. grub-legacy W: File (boot/) exists in a non-standard directory. grub-legacy W: File (boot/grub/) exists in a non-standard directory. grub-legacy W: File (boot/grub/menu.lst) exists in a non-standard directory. grub-legacy W: File (sbin/) exists in a non-standard directory. grub-legacy W: File (sbin/grub-install) exists in a non-standard directory. grub-legacy W: File (sbin/grub) exists in a non-standard directory. grub-legacy W: File (sbin/grub-set-default) exists in a non-standard directory. grub-legacy W: File (sbin/grub-md5-crypt) exists in a non-standard directory. grub-legacy W: File (sbin/grub-terminfo) exists in a non-standard directory. grub-legacy W: File (sbin/install-grub) exists in a non-standard directory. See https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-May/025003.html

darose commented on 2013-05-02 13:51 (UTC)

Builds for me. ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting package()... make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/var/abs/local/grub-legacy/src/grub-0.97' Making all in netboot make[2]: Entering directory `/var/abs/local/grub-legacy/src/grub-0.97/netboot' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/abs/local/grub-legacy/src/grub-0.97/netboot' Making all in stage2 make[2]: Entering directory `/var/abs/local/grub-legacy/src/grub-0.97/stage2' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../stage1 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wunused -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -falign-functions=1 -Wundef -fno-builtin -nostdinc -DSUPPORT_SERIAL=1 -DSUPPORT_HERCULES=1 -DFSYS_EXT2FS=1 -DFSYS_FAT=1 -DFSYS_FFS=1 -DFSYS_UFS2=1 -DFSYS_MINIX=1 -DFSYS_REISERFS=1 -DFSYS_VSTAFS=1 -DFSYS_JFS=1 -DFSYS_XFS=1 -DFSYS_ISO9660=1 -DUSE_MD5_PASSWORDS=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../stage1 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wunused -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -falign-functions=1 -Wundef -m32 -static -fno-strict-aliasing -MT pre_stage2_exec-asm.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/pre_stage2_exec-asm.Tpo -c -o pre_stage2_exec-asm.o `test -f 'asm.S' || echo './'`asm.S mv -f .deps/pre_stage2_exec-asm.Tpo .deps/pre_stage2_exec-asm.Po ... ==> Tidying install... -> Purging unwanted files... -> Compressing man and info pages... -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries... ==> Creating package "grub-legacy"... -> Generating .PKGINFO file... -> Adding install file... -> Generating .MTREE file... -> Compressing package... ==> Leaving fakeroot environment. ==> Finished making: grub-legacy 0.97-24 (Thu May 2 09:49:50 EDT 2013)

GutenYe commented on 2013-05-02 10:16 (UTC)

I got error gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../stage1 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wunused -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -falign-functions=1 -Wundef -fno-builtin -nostdinc -DSUPPORT_SERIAL=1 -DSUPPORT_HERCULES=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../stage1 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wunused -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -falign-functions=1 -Wundef -m32 -static -fno-strict-aliasing -MT start_exec-start.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/start_exec-start.Tpo -c -o start_exec-start.o `test -f 'start.S' || echo './'`start.S start.S: Assembler messages: start.S:399: Error: missing ')' start.S:399: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `K' make[3]: *** [start_exec-start.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pacaurtmp-guten/grub-legacy/src/grub-0.97/stage2' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pacaurtmp-guten/grub-legacy/src/grub-0.97/stage2' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pacaurtmp-guten/grub-legacy/src/grub-0.97' make: *** [all] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package(). Aborting...

commented on 2013-02-12 00:11 (UTC)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_resolution should be removed from menu.lst due that GRUB was changed completely to use for grub-common and grub-bios, not grub-legacy

darose commented on 2013-01-28 15:32 (UTC)

+1. Grub2 got a big WTF from me when I looked at it. The original grub is so much more clean and simple. Only catch here is that it gets hard to support old packages that aren't maintained anymore. I'll try to maintain the package as long as I can!

OrdinaryMagician commented on 2013-01-27 14:58 (UTC)

I'm glad there's still people who prefer this over the complete mess grub2 is.

fosskers commented on 2013-01-25 10:27 (UTC)

Thanks for taking this over, darose.

darose commented on 2013-01-23 15:01 (UTC)

If anyone else would prefer to take it, please say so. If not, I'll volunteer to take it on. I don't have loads of expertise building grub, but I use the package, so I'd prefer not to see it orphaned.

ava1ar commented on 2013-01-23 07:12 (UTC)

I migrated to GRUB2, so please pick up this package...

holyArch commented on 2012-11-05 20:20 (UTC)

Why is this package marked as outdated? I have 0.97-21 installed. Should I upgrade?

tomasabril commented on 2012-10-09 13:11 (UTC)

Since all the documentation refers to this version as "grub-legacy" and the version 2.x as just "grub", I think we should keep the -legacy in the name. At least so it has a different name than the other package.

ava1ar commented on 2012-10-09 02:47 (UTC)

pressh, Package version 0.* is actually the best indicator, that this is legacy version, at least for people who are going to install it from unsupported - if you don't know if this is legacy version why are you going to install it at all w/o completely understanding what are you doing?

pressh commented on 2012-10-05 10:09 (UTC)

I'd rather have it merged the other way around or at least keep the 'legacy' part of the name. There is no way of telling by the name that it is in fact the 'legacy' version otherwise.

ava1ar commented on 2012-10-05 03:01 (UTC)

darose, gfx package contains optional boot screen background (see here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub-Legacy-gfx). No other differences, afaik.

darose commented on 2012-10-05 02:58 (UTC)

What is the difference between grub-gfx and this pkg?

ava1ar commented on 2012-10-05 02:53 (UTC)

Hi grub-legacy package users! This package was merged into grub-gfx by elamskoy and there is no point to maintain both of them going forward. So I suggest replace your grub-legacy installations with grub-gfx. Report any issues on migration here. In a week I am going to request deletion of this package in favor of grub-gfx. Thanks, ava1ar

ava1ar commented on 2012-10-05 02:49 (UTC)

elamskoy, No problems on my side, installed grub-gfx and it works fine for me. Should I request deletion of this in mailing list?

el_aur commented on 2012-10-04 21:58 (UTC)

Hi. Why not to merge with my package grub-gfx? https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2416 Differs with 1 patch, image file and default menu.lst

ava1ar commented on 2012-08-18 16:22 (UTC)

Mr Green, for gcc-multilib package you need to have [multilib] repo configured (refer to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multilib). gcc-multilib-x32 will also work, but it is related to the new linux kernel feature called x32 ABI which is discussing here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=139684.

Mr Green commented on 2012-08-18 06:12 (UTC)

Can you confirm dep gcc-multilib, as far as I can find AUR package is called gcc-multilib-x32

fosskers commented on 2012-07-21 03:42 (UTC)

Thank you sir!

ava1ar commented on 2012-07-21 03:39 (UTC)

Thanks! Updated PKGBUILD: - added conflicts=('grub') - added makedepends=('gcc-multilib') for x86_64

fosskers commented on 2012-07-21 03:03 (UTC)

Worked. Felt dirty having to replace gcc, etc., with their multilib counterparts. Also, before building this succeeded I had to uninstall the old `grub` package first. I built, installed, restarted, and now here I am.

ava1ar commented on 2012-07-21 02:48 (UTC)

This is the reason. Can you please install it and check?

fosskers commented on 2012-07-21 02:47 (UTC)

Nope, I don't have that installed.

ava1ar commented on 2012-07-21 02:43 (UTC)

I suspect the problem is that you do not have multilib-devel installed? If the reason in this, I will add it as a makedepends for x86_64.

fosskers commented on 2012-07-21 02:40 (UTC)

x86_64

ava1ar commented on 2012-07-21 02:35 (UTC)

Are you building? i686 or x86_64?

fosskers commented on 2012-07-21 02:35 (UTC)

Now why would this be happening...: checking for gcc... gcc checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/boot/grub-legacy-1862/grub-legacy/src/grub-0.97': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables File permissions maybe? Typically package building occurs as non-root user, but this is attempting to build right into /boot and thus it fails?

ava1ar commented on 2012-07-21 01:01 (UTC)

Adopted: - PKGBUILD cleanup; - added patch for automake issue; - got rid of DESTARCH envvar (using CARCH) Tested on both i686 and x86_64 architectures and seems to work fine. Please report issues here, if any.

pressh commented on 2012-07-20 10:08 (UTC)

Dropped from [core] and rename to grub-legacy. Needs to be cleaned up if you adopt it (e.g. remove it being part of the base group, maybe more).