Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:21:24 -0500, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm thinking about moving grub back to Chapter 6 and then changing the >> grub section in Chapter 8 to "Setting up the boot loader" to discuss actually >> installing grub into /boot and the MBR. >> >> My thought is that the importance and complexity of setting up the system >> to boot warrants its own section. > > I think this approach is sensible, Bruce. Ideally, I like to see all packages > built, installed and configured within chapter 6, and thinking about this some > more, I reckon we could do without chapter 8 completely. > > I think moving Grub to chapter 6 (complete with configuration instructions) > and the kernel too would work just as well as it does now. The /etc/fstab > page could move to the bootscripts section, as it's obviously of critical > importance to the boot process.
I don't like the idea of moving the kernel to Chapter 6. To me, that is the culmination of the book. It should be last and basically have its own chapter. We can't do the grub/mbr config until after we have a linux kernel. The routines scan the /boot (or specified) directory for valid kernels. The easiest way to establish an LFS kernel recognized by grub-install is to name it vmlinux-something in section 8.3.1. I'll need to change the line cp -v arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/lfskernel-2.6.30.5 to something like: cp -v arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinux-2.6.30.5-lfs65 Then in the next section, the commands will be grub-install --grub-setup=/bin/true /dev/sda grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg grub-setup with appropriate explanation. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
