Dan McGhee wrote:
On 06/03/2014 03:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Just a note to say thinks to all who have helped in my exploration of
a lot of new hardware. I have now made everything work on my new
laptop and it has been a challenge.
And the same thanks to you from me for the same things. Exploring new
hardware is, let me say, interesting, frustrating, and satisfying.
Thanks for all you do, Bruce.
One of the reasons I got the new system was to have additional HW to
support BLFS development. Here is a list of things that I have now
been able to check out:
I snipped much of the list.
Bootable GPT Partition
Disabling unneeded UEFI 'BIOS'
Could you please amplify on what you wanted and what you did. I'm
particularly interested in what you call "unneeded UEFI 'BIOS'"--what
you wanted to do, what prevented it and how you solved it.
I powered up the system with the F2 key held down. I then got the BIOS
screen and had to enable legacy BIOS mode so I could boot from a USB
drive. There is no need for me to sign my kernels, etc. That's an
especially annoying thing to do when I'm updated the kernel
configuration a lot.
Also, I've not, when I didn't make mistakes, not encountered my GPT
partition not booting. To what are you referring?
For a GPT partition GRUB wants a special partition of it's own (1 Mb).
The first time I started it up I forgot that. I hadn't booted from a
GPT formatted disk before this.
I completed a {,B}LFS system in late Feb to early March. The "dev team"
was involved in publishing LFS-7.5, testing BLFS against it and
overcoming inertia for the systemd experiment. As a result, and because
I wanted an LFS based system as my "go to," I got one working, but left
a few things to do. Life then interfered and I haven't gotten back until
just now.
I need dual boot capability because Apple, to my knowledge, has not
written a linux compatible version of iTunes. Additionally, I don't
currently have good printing and photo manipulation in my BLFS. Long
winded intro to saying--one of the things I wanted to do was use Grub,
employing its EFI stubs to boot my system. Currently I'm using gummiboot
and the kernel efi stub. But I really like Grub's capability and getting
to work in this environment would be really great. That is a goal of my
for this build.
My idea of multi-boot is LFS (many versions), Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.
Along the way I've been able to study the Linux Kernel configuration
in additional depth, work with polkt/consolkit, and finally explore
gtk+ and some gnome applications that I didn't have before.
Because of what I wanted to do graphically with xfce, actually
dependencies in BLFS, I got involved with polkit and consolekit so I'm
interested in riding along on the learning curve when it comes to this.
I'm not sure what you are asking. What I found was that *kit really
doesn't want to work without PAM. Other than that, just follow the book.
-- Bruce
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