Re: GRUB-1.97

2009-10-29 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Ken Moffat wrote: > 2009/10/29 Bryan Kadzban : >> Same with some kinds of RAID -- it can assemble a RAID array, but >> won't (always) do it on its own. (It can autoassemble some types >> of md-raid, I think, but I'm not sure how well-maintained that is. >> It won't do anything with dm-raid, since

Re: GRUB-1.97

2009-10-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
ALIP BUDIANTO wrote: > ANd unnoticed failure,"Using GRUB to make you LFS system bootable will > be discussed ...". The you in the qoute must be your. Fixed. Thanks. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See t

Re: GRUB-1.97

2009-10-29 Thread ALIP BUDIANTO
ANd unnoticed failure,"Using GRUB to make you LFS system bootable will be discussed ...". The you in the qoute must be your. On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> 2009/10/29 Bruce Dubbs : >>> I have updated the book to GRUB-1.97. The on-line book should >>> r

Re: GRUB-1.97

2009-10-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > 2009/10/29 Bruce Dubbs : >> I have updated the book to GRUB-1.97. The on-line book should regenerate in >> a >> few hours. >> >> The GRUB section in Chapter 6 is pretty straight forward, but the section on >> configuration and testing in Chapter 8 is pretty complex. I'd appre

Re: GRUB-1.97

2009-10-29 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/10/29 Ken Moffat : > 2009/10/29 Bruce Dubbs : > Oh well, at least grub-mkrescue is a script.  Looks as if cdrom is the > default, but El Torito emulation isn't.. > Posted too soon. It uses genisoimage which is from cdrkit. Looking at the manpage for mkisofs from dvdrecord, it looks as if s

Re: GRUB-1.97

2009-10-29 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/10/29 Bruce Dubbs : > I have updated the book to GRUB-1.97.  The on-line book should regenerate in a > few hours. > > The GRUB section in Chapter 6 is pretty straight forward, but the section on > configuration and testing in Chapter 8 is pretty complex.  I'd appreciate > anyone > building an

Re: GRUB-1.97

2009-10-29 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/10/29 Bryan Kadzban : > > Same with some kinds of RAID -- it can assemble a RAID array, but won't > (always) do it on its own.  (It can autoassemble some types of md-raid, > I think, but I'm not sure how well-maintained that is.  It won't do > anything with dm-raid, since that's only a device-

Re: GRUB-1.97

2009-10-29 Thread Zachary Kotlarek
On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: Again, this is all related to mounting the rootfs. GRUB2 does simplify a lot of setups that still require an initramfs, so that they don't need a separate (non-LVM, sometimes even non-RAID) /boot partition. I saw that and thought it was

Re: GRUB-1.97

2009-10-29 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Bryan Kadzban wrote: >> It doesn't remove the need for an initramfs. What it does do, is >> remove the need for a separate /boot partition in many initramfs >> cases (since grub2 can read LVM and I think some RAID types -- but >> not, I think, dm-crypt). > > Well I don't know