----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 4:46 AM Subject: Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0
> Hello, > > 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: > > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2093: just a proposal to add a new > section about boot loaders; > > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1955: duplicate, but with more > discussion. > > Did anyone investigate the boot loader options further? What should be done for > LFS-7.0? > As grub2 should actually support x86, x86-64, ppc (New World) and possibly sparc, it look an atttractive direction for the futur. grub is problematic with the number of patches to integrate and the fact that different splash patches need different splash images format. inodesize patch work for me with grub-0.97 (and all debian patches). Gilles -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
