Daniel Ortiz Herrera wrote: > Hello: > I am ready to make my first LFS installation. a secondary HD will be my > $LFS (/mnt/lfs), my objetive is to finish the build and remove the host > system HD, put the LFS disk in the master bus and boot .......for do > that, i will need to change some configuration; for example in the > grub/lilo , or in the "Chapter 8: how i make the system bootable"......... > really i will appreciate some feedback, idea or suggest about this. > > thanks in advance > > Zaterio >
Hi, You shouldn't really need to move the disk from what you call "secondary". If you are using ide then your two drives will be something like hda1 and hdb1 (depending on how you partition them of course...) When you install grub (or lilo) you "can" write it's bootloader to the boot sector of hda and give it a menu to boot systems on any partition (hda1, 3 7...) and hdb(1,2,3,4,5,...) etc etc... If you can choose which hdd you can boot from in your bios (try F12 during POST) then you can also install grub's bootloader on hdb and use a drive map file to logically swap the disks around so Windows still thinks it is the primary disk even though it is being booted from another one - I didn't explain that very well I know but it's early and it was a long time ago when I worked out how to do this so I'm going from [quite volatile] memory...) If you have Windows on your first disk, grub can have a configuration to start that too! So you shouldn't have to move disks about at all. Linux and grub really don't care where your bootable partitions are. Hope this helps and have fun :-) Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
