On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
> BTW. If writing about UEFI and booting in a hint, would you care to
> author it with me?
Maybe. Depends on how much time I have. If I'm gonna commit myself to
adding a LFS installation to my machine. Virtualbox EFI emulation
isn't that stellar.
On 12/19/2013 01:53 PM, William Immendorf wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> I purposefully didn't mention gummiboot because I wanted my presentation
>> to be as "minimal" as possible. The same reason for "no logic" and
>> references. I really like gummiboot. And yes, i
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
> I purposefully didn't mention gummiboot because I wanted my presentation
> to be as "minimal" as possible. The same reason for "no logic" and
> references. I really like gummiboot. And yes, it it PCIutils that it needs.
Yea, I really like what I
On 12/19/2013 01:22 PM, William Immendorf wrote:
> Thanks for posting advice for EFI users. You should probally make this
> into a hint sometime soon. I might want to add info about Gummiboot
> [1] (or at least mention it) - it's really useful if you want to take
> advantage of EFI and still be abl
Thanks for posting advice for EFI users. You should probally make this
into a hint sometime soon. I might want to add info about Gummiboot
[1] (or at least mention it) - it's really useful if you want to take
advantage of EFI and still be able to choose almost instantly which OS
you want to boot in
Booting LFS can now involve a series of decisions on how you want to
boot. If you don't have UEFI firmware it's easy. Follow the GRUB2
instructions in Ch. 8.4. If you have UEFI firmware, the situation can
get a little "stickier." Now the decision is to boot using GRUB2 in the
"BIOS Mode" or
On 12/19/2013 09:32 AM, Frans de Boer wrote:
> On 12/18/2013 05:06 PM, William Harrington wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 18, 2013, at 4:07 AM, Frans de Boer wrote:
>>
>>> The output of ulimit -a is:
>>> root:/sources/glibc-2.18# ulimit -a
>>> core file size (blocks, -c) 0
>>> data seg size
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 16:00 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote:
> You're right about the GPT without UEFI. But, AFIK, the user must *make*
> the partition behave with the GUID's. But, again AFIK, if the firmware
> is MBR based, you're still limited to four primaries.
No, because under GPT, there's simply n
On 12/18/2013 05:06 PM, William Harrington wrote:
>
> On Dec 18, 2013, at 4:07 AM, Frans de Boer wrote:
>
>> The output of ulimit -a is:
>> root:/sources/glibc-2.18# ulimit -a
>> core file size (blocks, -c) 0
>> data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
>> scheduling priority
