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Posted: **Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:54 am**

Hey,KotuxGuy here.

First off,to avoid a few n00bish mistakes,I'd like to tell you that:

I have searched Google
I have searched the forums
I have searched the GRUB documentation
and I have searched osdever.net and all other OSDeving forums and resources I could find
Most importantly,I have tried to do it myself(several times)

Anyhow, I need a pre-built, VBE-patched GRUB binaries,as ./configure spits out:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes           
checking for gawk... no                                     
checking for mawk... mawk                                   
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes                   
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu             
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu              
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc                                                   
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc                                          
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out                 
checking whether the C compiler works... yes                              
checking whether we are cross compiling... no                             
checking for suffix of executables...                                     
checking for suffix of object files... o                                  
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes                   
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes                                    
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed                  
checking for style of include used by make... GNU                         
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3                                  
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3                         
checking for ranlib... ranlib                                             
checking whether optimization for size works... yes                       
checking whether gcc has -fno-stack-protector... yes                      
checking whether -Wundef works... yes                                     
checking whether -falign-loops works... yes                               
checking for objcopy... objcopy                                           
checking if C symbols get an underscore after compilation... no           
checking whether objcopy works for absolute addresses... no               
configure: error: GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils

Binutils is already the newest version available (apt-get revealed that).
So does anyone have pre-patched GRUB binaries(i just need stage2_eltorito)?
Thanks in advance,

KotuxGuy

Posted: **Sat Feb 13, 2010 4:06 am**

here you are http://code.google.com/p/spiderpigos/so ... trunk/grub

yes, you need only stage2

Posted: **Sat Feb 13, 2010 4:14 am**

Cool,thanks.

Also I just(inadvertently) found another way to get a patched stage2:

Install a ISO extractor (that's what I call it,anyway)
Download this file: http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs4 ... .cs452.iso
Extract the stage2_eltorito out of the ISO image
And you're done!

Thanks again,

KotuxGuy

EDIT: The method above seems to be rather troublesome...

Posted: **Sat Feb 13, 2010 5:22 am**

The method that you explained is useless if you already have a patched stage2_eltorito

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