On 11.06.2021 10:32, ruchir bharadwaj wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install GRUB2 on a freebsd-12 machine however port for the > same have been discontinued > > (https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/grub2-efi) > > So I decided to download the tar and install it on a freebsd12 machine. > > * I got the tarball from here > > wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.06.tar.gz > > > * I ran configure command, .i.e. > > > > cd grub-2.0 > > sh ./configure > > it gives me message like > > ******************************************************* > GRUB2 will be compiled with following components: > Platform: i386-pc > With devmapper support: No (need libdevmapper header) > With memory debugging: No > With disk cache statistics: No > With boot time statistics: No > efiemu runtime: Yes > grub-mkfont: No (need freetype2 library) > grub-mount: No (need FUSE library) > starfield theme: No (No build-time grub-mkfont) > With libzfs support: Yes > Build-time grub-mkfont: No (need freetype2 library) > Without unifont (no build-time grub-mkfont) > With liblzma from -llzma (support for XZ-compressed mips images) > With stack smashing protector: No > ******************************************************* > > however my intention is to build it for a amd-64 freebsd12 machine with > UEFI. however I could find the necessary switches for the same. >
./configure --with-platform=efi > > I tried to search on internet however I could not find any reference for > installing GRUB2-efi on a freebsd12 machine. > configure script is the same everywhere.
