Bugzilla Bug 159636

Its been in portage since 10/8/2006.  Please stablize.

sys-boot/grub-0.97-r3  USE="-custom-cflags -netboot -static"

on x86:
1: emerges ok
2: passes collision test
3: works

emerge --info:

Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4,
2.6.18-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r5 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2500  @
2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:30:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer
parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa alsa_cards_hda-intel alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm
alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy
alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop
alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file
alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug
alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear
alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi
alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate
alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm
alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol apm berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib
crypt cups dbus divx dlloader dri dvd dvdread elibc_glibc emacs encode ffmpeg
firefox flac fortran gdbm gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics ipv6 isdnlog
ithreads java jpeg jpeg2k kernel_linux ldap libg++ mad mmx mmxext mono mp3 mp4
mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg openal opengl oss pam pcre
perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline realmedia reflection session spl
sse sse2 sse3 ssl tcpd test threads truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode
userland_GNU vcd video_cards_nvidia vidix win32codecs wmf wmp x264 xine xml
xorg xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

  virtual.unavailable            8
   sys-boot/grub/grub-0.94-r1.ebuild: x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader
   sys-boot/grub/grub-0.96-r2.ebuild: x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader
   sys-boot/grub/grub-0.97.ebuild: ~x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader
   sys-boot/grub/grub-0.97-r3.ebuild: x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader
   sys-boot/grub/grub-0.96-r1.ebuild: x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader
   sys-boot/grub/grub-0.92-r1.ebuild: x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader
   sys-boot/grub/grub-0.96-r3.ebuild: ~x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader
   sys-boot/grub/grub-0.97-r2.ebuild: x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader

That, of course, doesn't mean a showstopper for this stabilizing. x86 done.

During emerge, /boot is mounted for installation of files into /boot/grub. 
However, it is then not unmounted, and should be.

stable on amd64.