On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:07:01 -0600, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:46:31AM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: >> Did anyone investigate the boot loader options further? What should be > done for >> LFS-7.0? > > Based on what I've read, I vote for switching to LILO as the default. > This has the advantage of making things easier for bringing x86_64 > support into LFS, that is, if we're still wantint to do that for 7.0.
Does LILO still require NASM? My (not-so-strict) criteria for a boot-loader are: 1) Is compatible with other packages in LFS 2) Is compatible with the widest range of architectures as possible - with the assumption that at some point x86, x86-64 and possibly PPC will be supported if not by stock-LFS, by CLFS and having a common-bootloader between them just makes sense from a support POV. 3) Doesn't come with 'the kitchen sink' - last I looked, GRUB2 was spawning scripting abilities, JPEG, TGA and PNG parsers, audio file parsers, etc. I just want it to jumpstart my kernel, not provide its own desktop-environment! (I understand that some people like graphical bootloaders where image format parsing might be useful, but I personally spend so little time looking at the boot menu I don't see the benefit myself). Out of the ones Alexander listed, I've only ever heard of Gujin but have never tried it. As is probably evident, out of laziness, I don't install GRUB as per the book's instructions - I just rely on my host system's GRUB. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
