diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/grub/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/grub/default.nix
index cce2adf5ce5..a187dd9d6b2 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/grub/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/grub/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl, autoconf, automake, buggyBiosCDSupport ? true}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "grub-0.97-patch-1.10";
+  name = "grub-0.97-patch-1.12";
   
   src = fetchurl {
     url = ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.97.tar.gz;
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   # failures on systems with more than 2 GiB RAM, and for booting from
   # ext3 filesystems with 256-byte inodes as well as ext4 filesystems.
   gentooPatches = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://gentoo/distfiles/grub-0.97-patches-1.10.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "015hkmb2jd6jfzkfr13cdh16frvva04rwr4yahzyw5xhl634d1h9";
+    url = mirror://gentoo/distfiles/grub-0.97-patches-1.12.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "15xc5349hkzl03lbn2cadrmvjrf3s8sn147vv2142cwys9sdzkl0";
   };
 
   patches = [
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f051abdc871..bf504d9fbff 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -787,7 +787,6 @@ let
 
   grub = callPackage_i686 ../tools/misc/grub {
     buggyBiosCDSupport = getConfig ["grub" "buggyBiosCDSupport"] true;
-    automake = automake110x;
   };
 
   grub19x = callPackage ../tools/misc/grub/1.9x.nix { };