Reiser4 Howto/GRUB

NOTE: this is currently WIP and NOT TESTED AT ALL

GRUB

Before building GRUB with Reiser4 support, we have to build and install (libaal and) reiser4progs. Once we have done that, we can build GRUB. Unfortunately, comilation was not that easy, see the talkpage for details, in short:

• compilation against reiser4progs-1.0.7 fails
• add -fno-stack-protector to disable SSP, since this seems to be the default for Ubuntu.

Well, here is the whole procedure again; you may have to adjust the pathnames used here:

 $ wget wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/reiser4/reiser4progs/reiser4progs-1.0.6.tar.gz
 $ wget wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/reiser4/reiser4progs/reiser4progs-1.0.6.tar.gz.sign
 $ gpg --recv-keys 517D0F0E
 $ gpg --verify reiser4progs-1.0.6.tar.gz.sign reiser4progs-1.0.6.tar.gz
 $ cd reiser4progs-1.0.6
 $ sed '999 s/^#elif/#else/' -i plugin/node/node40/node40.c
 $ CFLAGS="-fno-stack-protector -I/opt/libaal/include" LDFLAGS="-L/opt/libaal/lib" \
   ./configure --prefix=/opt/reiser4progs-1.0.6
 $ make && sudo make install

 $ wget http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.97.tar.gz
 $ wget http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.97.tar.gz.sig
 $ gpg --recv-keys FE06BDEF
 $ gpg --verify grub-0.97.tar.gz.sig grub-0.97.tar.gz
 $ tar -xzf grub-0.97.tar.gz
 $ cd grub-0.97
 $ patch -p1 < ../grub-0.97-libaal-1.0.5-reiser4progs-1.0.5.patch
 $ CFLAGS="-fno-stack-protector -I/opt/reiser4progs-1.0.6/include" \
   CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/libaal/include -I/opt/reiser4progs-1.0.6/include" \
   LDFLAGS="-L/opt/libaal/lib -L/opt/reiser4progs-1.0.6/lib" \
   ./configure --prefix=/opt/grub-r4
 $ make && sudo make install

GRUB v2

TBD, GRUB 2 support is still not ready.

Files

• File:Grub-0.97-libaal-1.0.5-reiser4progs-1.0.5.patch.txt (MD5: 423d04e95c4c2d90b840f67e8a3a5024)