Re: Grub install problem from FreeBSD

[Joshua Oreman]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:44:01PM -0700 or thereabouts, ShadowEyez wrote:
> Hi.
> I'm running a new system with a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.2.1 on i386, with 
> GCC 3.3.3 and have been trying to install the GRUB 0.94 boot loader.
> Got the .tar.gz file, untarred it, and ran the configure script from the 
> grub-0.94 directory with no special options.  Typed make and ran into a 
> message saying couldn't compile stage1.  I looked around at all the makefiles 
> in the directories (stage1, stage2, utils, docs, grub) and did make and then 
> make install in each dir.  After doing this in the grub directory, I could 
> run the grub program, and after going this in the docs directory I could run 
> man pages, and after make and make install in the utils directory I could 
> (try) and run grub-install and grub-terminfo, meaning these programs and docs 
> compiled nicley.  It's the stage1 and 2 directories that are giving me 
> problems.
> [ ... ]
> How can I install grub?

Wild guess... try 'gmake' instead of 'make'. You may have to install it from 
ports
(/usr/ports/devel/gmake). FreeBSD make uses a different syntax than GNU make 
(gmake)
and IIRC GRUB depends on the latter. HTH.

-- Josh