Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > as explained in http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2161 (a blocker), > due to recent changes in e2fsprogs, Grub-0.97 no longer works (cannot read > any > files from the resulting filesystem, cannot be installed into MBR, and the > book > is thus horribly broken). There are a couple of tickets about alternative > boot > loaders:
Hi Alex, interesting. A couple of questions/observations. - Does the problem exist when Grub installation is run in its preferred native mode as per the Grub docs? ie: not run from within a running Linux kernel, but instead run from eg: a floppy before any OS is loaded? - There is nothing stopping folks from changing the default Inode size back to 128 via editing /etc/mke2fs.conf or via a command line switch. LFS could just warn, yes? That's not so horribly broken, is it? - LFS could change its install paradigm. There is no need to create the target partition immediately from the outset. For example, I intentionally changed this aspect in the DIY Refbuild in order to avoid the situation that's occurred in the past whereby creating a target fs with a too new E2fsprogs (think Fedora host) causes incompatibilities with the (older) version being installed. > Did anyone investigate the boot loader options further? What should be done > for > LFS-7.0? What about Grub2? The time must be getting near.. Anyone use it? Regards Greg -- http://www.diy-linux.org/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
