On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:35 AM, robert baker <robertmba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Last time i did a build, admitedly a long time ago, grub 2 worked > fine. I ran into some issues during the configure phase because I was > building on a grub 1 host(lfs live disc). If memory serves correctly i > booted from another live disc that had grub 2, chrooted, and reran the > grub 2 configuration. > 64 bit grub 2 works fine. Grub's binaries never liked hardening > options (i forget whether it was fortify source or stack protection) > so I just tend to disable them. The grub team may have fixed that, but > I'm not sure. > Grub is pretty simple. The problems we tend to run into stem from our > build environments not the tool itself. Have patience, this stuff all > works when you are persistant enough.
i got grub 2 up and running. i had no problems building it. i liked grub legacy. configuration is easier. automating the grub configuration would have made it even better. i read the manual once and i was up and running. with grub 2 i had to read the scripts and the source code to actually figure out what i was doing wrong. grub has always been hostile to hardening. im looking at a fork of grub legacy and making the linux kernel multiboot and all modular so the module load addresses can all be randomized. -- quarq consulting: agile, open source -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
