Jim Gifford wrote: > I know I told Bryan I would post my build and findings on this. So here > they are.
Thanks! I'm actually considering changing on my main system (!!) now.
(Or at least testing it out.) :-) I may switch back once grub2 is
sane, though; we'll see.
> cat >> /boot/extlinux.conf << "EOF"
> default vesamenu.c32
> prompt 0
> menu title LFS Boot Menu
>
> timeout 600
>
> label linux
> menu label LFS Kernel {Version}
> menu default
> kernel lfskernel-{Version}
> append rw root={/dev of root partition}
> EOF
I assume an initramfs is possible via some kind of "initrd" type line?
I'll have to look.
(I give a udev by-id symlink for root=, which is resolved by initramfs.)
> extlinux --install /boot
> dd if=/dev/zero of={/dev to root drive} bs=446 count=1
> dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of={/dev to root drive}
Hmm; would it work to simply copy (via dd) mbr.bin to the root drive,
rather than overwriting the first 446 bytes with zero first? Seems like
two dd invocations would give twice the room for mistakes (;-)), so if
it's possible to cut down on them, that *might* be a better idea.
> Has the same functionality as Grub, you can change the boot commands
> without editing the file.
Nifty. :-)
Thanks!
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