On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Stuart Stegall <kel...@keltor.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Andrew Benton wrote:
>>> On 30/06/10 19:33, Stuart Stegall wrote:
>>>> Seems like it should be the simplest way possible. Personally I don't
>>>> like the grub-mkconfig - has failed to work for me a few times, and I
>>>> believe it does that due to my host system.
>>>>
>>> grub-mkconfig has never worked for me as I use btrfs for my root partition
>>>
>>>> Seems like a much more simple approach of:
>>>>
>>>> # cat<<EOF> /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>>>> set timeout=10
>>>> set default=0
>>>> menuentry "LFS x.x" {
>>>> set root=(hd0,1)
>>>> linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2
>>>> }
>>>> EOF
>>>>
>>>> Would be better.
>>>>
>>> I agree. I've always written grub.cfg by hand from examples found with
>>> google.
>>
>> I understand your thought, but I think it better for the book to explain
>> what is going on in a way similar to more traditional distros.
>>
>> I personally generate grub.cfg once and then edit from then on. I did
>> some experimenting to get an image to come up in grub and using
>> grub-mkconfig would break that.
>>
>> Really, the only things that need to change are menuentry items. If you
>> set root=(hd0,1) outside of the menuentry, then that degenerates down to
>> one line:
>>
>> menuentry "LFS SVN 20100627, Linux 2.6.34" {
>> linux /linux-2.6.34 root=/dev/sda13 ro
>> }
>>
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>
> I have 3 roots on my two test machines. :D (actually as soon as I can
> get an ARM together, I'll have 3 test machines.)
>
> ro is also unnecessary since around 2.2.x (I don't swear to that, it
> could have been 2.1.x or 0.99.) The kernel is read-only by default.
Long ago, there was a recommendation that because it was a journaling
filesystem, that it had to be mounted rw... (Keeping in mind with
this simple sentence, I do not know the details, nor the circumstances
of where I heard that). Around the time we went from ext2 to ext3.
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