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nmcsween
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 Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 5:28 am Post subject: Grub wont compile. |
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| I've installed gentoo many times but this is just plain weird, Every time I emerge grub I get a src compile error more specificly it says !! making netboot stuff. But when I do a USE="static" emerge grub it works fine. Now my question is what does the static flag do? Also I'm running gcc 3.4 since it's stable. All different cflags don't make a difference |
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ataphoya
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| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| AFAIK it just makes things to get compiled statically, not dynamically. I'm not sure what exactly it compiles statically though. |
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deadaim
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| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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Try doing:
There really is no point in compiling grub yourself. |
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stif
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| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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hi everyone!
i do have a problem with compiling grub to.
i have done a step by step installation as described in the Installation Guide. So i get to the point of compiling grub without any problems.
But "emerge grub" terminates with the message:
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Merging sys-boot/grub-0.94-r1 to /
cat: /proc/mounts: no such file or directory
cat: /proc/mounts: no such file or directory
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*Cannot automatically mount your /boot partition.
*Your boot partition has to be mounted rw before the installation
*can continue. grub need to install important files there.
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!!! ERROR: sys-boot/grub-0.94-r1 failed
!!! Function mount-boot_mount_boot_partition Line 53, Exitcode 0
!!! Please mount your /boot partition manually!
!!FAILED preinst: 1
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the boot partition is mounted and i have read/write access to it.
i think problem lies in the /proc directory is emty
But as far as i know this directory and its subdirectories are automatically created by the system.
So i have no idea what to do to solve this problem.
Has someone any suggestion?
regards, stif |
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| stif wrote: | | i think problem lies in the /proc directory is emty |
During installation, you need to mount /proc so it is available inside the chroot.
| Code: | | # mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc |
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t_2199
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| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:36 pm Post subject: Re: Grub wont compile. |
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| Ultraoctane.com wrote: | | I've installed gentoo many times but this is just plain weird, Every time I emerge grub I get a src compile error more specificly it says !! making netboot stuff. But when I do a USE="static" emerge grub it works fine. Now my question is what does the static flag do? Also I'm running gcc 3.4 since it's stable. All different cflags don't make a difference |
Grub won´t compile with GCC 3.4 thats your problem... Just use gcc 3.3 gcc 3.4 may be stable but some progs still need some adjustments |
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SkyPanther
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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You have to comment these lines out in grub-0.94-r1.ebuild, to get it to compile in GCC 3.4
as far as i can tell this is for Netbooting.. ie, diskless PC's, which most people dont use anyway.
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CFLAGS="" \
econf \
--datadir=/usr/lib/grub \
--exec-prefix=/ \
--disable-auto-linux-mem-opt \
--enable-diskless \
--enable-{3c{5{03,07,09,29,95},90x},cs89x0,davicom,depca,eepro{,100}} \
--enable-{epic100,exos205,ni5210,lance,ne2100,ni{50,65}10,natsemi} \
--enable-{ne,ns8390,wd,otulip,rtl8139,sis900,sk-g16,smc9000,tiara} \
--enable-{tulip,via-rhine,w89c840} || die
emake w89c840_o_CFLAGS="-O" || die "making netboot stuff"
mv stage2/{nbgrub,pxegrub} ${S}
mv stage2/stage2 stage2/stage2.netboot
make clean || die
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Make it look like this
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#CFLAGS="" \
#econf \
# --datadir=/usr/lib/grub \
# --exec-prefix=/ \
# --disable-auto-linux-mem-opt \
# --enable-diskless \
# --enable-{3c{5{03,07,09,29,95},90x},cs89x0,davicom,depca,eepro{,100}} \
# --enable-{epic100,exos205,ni5210,lance,ne2100,ni{50,65}10,natsemi} \
# --enable-{ne,ns8390,wd,otulip,rtl8139,sis900,sk-g16,smc9000,tiara} \
# --enable-{tulip,via-rhine,w89c840} || die
#emake w89c840_o_CFLAGS="-O" || die "making netboot stuff"
#mv stage2/{nbgrub,pxegrub} ${S}
#mv stage2/stage2 stage2/stage2.netboot
#make clean || die
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thorne
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| Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, the solution for me was to unmount boot. When you emerge grub, the script automatically mounts boot. Perhaps there is an error in the script where it checks to see if /boot is already mounted?
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jbirch
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 1:42 am Post subject: |
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I had the same problem as "stif" the work around posted in the above post from "thorne" worked. I was following install procedures by the letter but emerge --usepkg grub (or lilo) would not complete with the same message quoted by stif. Did the "umount /boot" then running the emerge worked in both cases for the problem.
Thanks thorne. Saved me evening #3 of beating head on monitor. (Night #1 was no NIC detection, Night #2 no grub, night #3 early yet but progressing....) 
Regards,
jbirch
" | stif wrote: |
"emerge grub" terminates with the message:
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Merging sys-boot/grub-0.94-r1 to /
cat: /proc/mounts: no such file or directory
cat: /proc/mounts: no such file or directory
*
*Cannot automatically mount your /boot partition.
*Your boot partition has to be mounted rw before the installation
*can continue. grub need to install important files there.
*
!!! ERROR: sys-boot/grub-0.94-r1 failed
!!! Function mount-boot_mount_boot_partition Line 53, Exitcode 0
!!! Please mount your /boot partition manually!
!!FAILED preinst: 1
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thorne
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| jbirch wrote: | | the work around posted in the above post from "thorne" worked. |
No Problem, glad I could help someone out! 
Sometimes the simplest solution is the best solution. 
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newtonian
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Posts: 415
Location: Hokkaido Japan
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 11:53 am Post subject: same problem in 2008 with hardened sources |
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I'm getting the same error. I've unmounted boot and tried but it didn't seem to help. I don't want to comment out the diskless code because I'm trying to get a diskless setup working. Any ideas?
Cheers,
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mv -f .deps/libdrivers_a-main.Tpo .deps/libdrivers_a-main.Po
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r4/work/grub-0.97/netboot'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r4/work/grub-0.97'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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* ERROR: sys-boot/grub-0.97-r4 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 2907: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* emake w89c840_o_CFLAGS="-O" || die "making netboot stuff";
* The die message:
* making netboot stuff
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* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r4/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r4/temp/environment'.
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* Messages for package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r4:
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* ERROR: sys-boot/grub-0.97-r4 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 2907: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* emake w89c840_o_CFLAGS="-O" || die "making netboot stuff";
* The die message:
* making netboot stuff
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* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r4/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r4/temp/environment'.
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