Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-07-02 Thread linux fan
On 7/2/10, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> ./configure --bla-bla-bla >> make > > Try to do a simple ls in the grub top level directory after a build if > you don't use a separate build directory. There are 2400 files, many of Not saying that is the right way. Just that it succeeded and I didn't see or un

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-07-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
linux fan wrote: > One solution that worked is to NOT build in a separate build directory. > > E.g., instead of: > mkdir build > cd build > ../configure --bla-bla-bla > make > > Do: > ./configure --bla-bla-bla > make Try to do a simple ls in the grub top level directory after a build if you do

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-07-02 Thread linux fan
FYI - For grub-1.98 !!! - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275 describes a way to save the last chosen boot option to default Involved is /etc/default/grub file which must be user created: == cat > /etc/defau

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-07-02 Thread splotz90
Am 01.07.2010 22:29, schrieb Andrew Benton: > Which partition will grub choose? I have found some additional information about that: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-does-grub2-find-the-grub-cfg-file-794560/ The "grub-setup" command seems to add an information where

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-07-02 Thread splotz90
Am 02.07.2010 09:44, schrieb splotz90: >Am 01.07.2010 23:11, schrieb linux fan: >> My understanding (from experimentation and documentation) is that the >> UUID is specifically generated for a specific file system. You would >> need to use dd or similar utility to move the filesystem to a >>

Re: LFS-XML to hlfs patch. (robert baker) (robert baker)

2010-07-02 Thread Dean Takemori
> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:11:27 -0500 > From: robert baker > Subject: Re: LFS-XML to hlfs patch. (robert baker) > To: Hardened LFS Development List > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Can either of you build the vanilla LFS book without errors? There see

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-07-02 Thread splotz90
Am 01.07.2010 23:11, schrieb linux fan: > My understanding (from experimentation and documentation) is that the > UUID is specifically generated for a specific file system. You would > need to use dd or similar utility to move the filesystem to a > different partition if you wished to preserve th

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-07-02 Thread splotz90
Am 01.07.2010 22:29, schrieb Andrew Benton: > Which partition will grub choose? I think that I've found the answer ... Have a look at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/install.html I know that it is a GRUB Legacy documentation, but I think that GRUB 2 works in a similarly way