On 10/02/2014 02:28 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Dan McGhee wrote:
On 09/29/2014 05:45 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Dan McGhee wrote:
On 09/29/2014 02:45 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
We'll take this a step at a time. First upgrade the package with
current instructions that expect uefi to be missing or disabled. Then
we can do a hint for uefi. Finally, hopefully before the next release
next March incorporate it in the book.
Good plan. I'll start working on the hint.
OK, I just updated the book to grub-2.02~beta2. The build instructions
are the same as before but omit a sed for a fix no longer needed.
Testing on the same grub.cfg that I was using (Debian's with manual
edits for LFS) worked without modification.
Chalk this up to mutual experience. I had no trouble with it when I
discovered and built it in 7.5 and did the same thing with my Ubuntu
grub.cfg.
I did not add a comment about rebuilding after fontconfig is available
in BLFS. That's probably appropriate for the hint though.
This would be a good area to test. The words on the ARCH wiki are "Grub
requires a visual environment" when used in UEFI mode. It might be
necessary to provide a font to grub for run time. But when I see
"require," unless it's in the {,B}LFS book, I like to see if it's really so.
If you write the hint, I'll be glad to review it, but I probably won't
test it. I don't want to re-enable uefi on my laptop. I have no use
for it.
Thanks for this. As far as UEFI and testing the hint, do you have any
students who might be interested in an "extra credit" project? (said the
spider to the fly.) I can't test it either because of the HP hard code
stuff. I'm going to post on -support in a bit and ask if there is anyone
who is willing to help with the testing.
I'll note that at one time I played with customizing grub2 and came up
with:
# if loadfont /grub/unifont.pf2 ; then
# loadfont /grub/unifont.pf2
# set gfxmode="800x600;640x480"
# insmod gfxterm
# insmod vbe
# insmod tga
# fi
# terminal_output gfxterm
# if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
# terminal gfxterm
# fi
# if background_image /grub/lfs.tga ; then
# true
# set menu_color_normal=light-gray/black
# set menu_color_highlight=white/black
# else
# set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
# set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
# fi
Sets the background image, changes the font, and font
foreground/background colors. I don't use it though. I don't think a
lot of time is warranted to customize a screen that is normally up for
5 seconds or less when booting (which I try to avoid anyway).
Unless you're editing the grub.cfg. :) Even for that short-lived screen,
I want to do some tweaking for my tired, old eyes.
Dan
-- Bruce
--
http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev
FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/
Unsubscribe: See the above information page
