#1955: New Grub version -----------------------------------------+---------------------------------- Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [email protected] Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Future Component: Book | Version: SVN Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | -----------------------------------------+---------------------------------- Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I have tested Gujin-2.2 and must say that it is unsuitable for the book in its current form. * It crashed KVM * It reports "unknown key pressed" when running in QEMU (but still boots the first kernel and its initramfs when I press F1) * It is impossible to install Gujin into MBR without losing all data on the hard disk, because it explicitly asks to zero out the first 63 sectors of the hard drive, thus wiping out the partition table * Upgrades are problematic, because the boot sequence is protected by checksums - and if you don't upgrade the MBR contents (thus losing all data), old MBR wil refuse booting new Gujin. * By default, it adds LANG=en to the kernel command line (bug reported to authors). Kernel transforms this into the environment variable, but "en" is not a valid value for LANG. GRUB-1.95 (unlike the current version) is completely unusable (read: refuses to install) with root on LVM and /boot on a small partition, but, according to the Changelog, this has been fixed in the CVS version. So, I would like to postpone the update of GRUB. -- Ticket URL: <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1955#comment:6> LFS Trac <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/> Linux From Scratch: Your Distro, Your Rules. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
