On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 14:58 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 16:50 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> *snip*
> >
> > Every distro wants to do their own thing. Most will automatically
> > change from what you have to their custom eye candy.
> >
> > You really have a couple of choices. One choice is to install grub2 per
> > the LFS instructions. Then edit the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file to
> > manually add menuentries for any other desired entries. This bypasses
> > the eye candy and shortens up the grub.cfg.
> >
> > My .cfg only has a few lines before the menuentries:
> >
> > set default=0
> > set timeout=5
> > insmod ext2
> > set root=(hd0,1)
> >
> > The menuentries for other distros really only need:
> >
> > menuentry "Some descriptive title" {
> > linux kernel kernel-options
> > initrd initrd-image
> > }
> >
> > Note that this is a lot faster too.
> >
> > Specifying where the kernel and initrd are located depends on your
> > setup. If you or a distro have used a separate partition for /boot,
> > then it's just /kernel-name. If it's on a partition, then it may be
> > something like (hd0,7)/boot/kernel-name
> >
> > The only drawback to this is if you get a new distro or install an
> > update to the kernel in a distro, it will probably try to reinstall grub
> > the way it wants to instead of the way you want to.
> >
> > The other option is to use the distro that controls grub to find your
> > LFS kernel and hope it adds it correctly for you. The last time I ran
> > grub-mkconfig (which is what the distros do), I had about 48 entries.
> > Over 30 of the entries were nonsense. You still need to edit the file
> > after that, IMO. The .cfg file name may also change. As you note, they
> > name it /boot/grub/grub2.cfg, but it needs to be the one on the
> > partition that fedora recognizes as /boot. That's the file that needs
> > to be edited if you let them control.
> >
> > The solution to distros overwriting your grub.cfg is to keep a backup.
> >
> > -- Bruce
>
> Thanks. I'm about to try a boot, will see how it goes.
>
Got the frame buffer with the penguins on top (haven't seen that since
booting on PowerPC LOL) but it did not fully boot, I'm going to try
using the fedora kernel config and if that doesn't work investigate
further.
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