Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > I'm not sure if the community has decided what direction to take here. I > need to get some kind of boot loader into the jh branch (currently there > is none) so I will be playing around with a more flexible approach to > installing one there. > Personally, on the svn version I'm doing a test build with, I went lilo before starting and made sure I had the sources and dependencies sources. [ lilo depends on nasm according to the hint on the website for "beautifying lilo" ]
> Basically, I'm going to create a bootloader sub-section inside chapter 8 > "Making the LFS System Bootable". Seems appropriate. The section will > contain (at least for now) instructions for patched grub legacy and lilo > and allow a user to make a choice. The sub-section could also point to > other alternatives, even listing 'use the host's bootloader > configuration' as an option. > > Maybe then the community can decide if it wants to merge the whole > section over, or just use bits of it, or even go a completely different > direction. With the direction for LFS discussions, isn't presenting the options in keeping with the general input for the direction, which was to make LFS more a guide to creating a distro if I remember correctly than just a guide to building a linux system? Jaqui -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
