On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 08:43:41AM +0900, Akira Urushibata via lfs-dev wrote: > Recently I installed Debian 10.2 on a computer with both LFS and older > Debian versions. The installer automatically produced a new grub.cfg > in which LFS is listed as "unknown Linux distribution." To my great > surprise the listed kernel was changed to the new kernel that comes > with Debian 10.2. This had never happened in the past. I haven't > checked but I believe that grub-mkconfig is responsible for this. > > The Debian kernel does not work with LFS because CONFIG_DEVTMPFS > (maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev) is not set. > There may be other issues. LFS may boot, but you may not have enough > functionality to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg . > > I don't know whether there should be some words of caution in the Book > on installing other systems on the same computer after LFS. This > issue is not directly related to building LFS so probably it has no > place in the Book. On the other hand, many of us run multi-boot > systems which means many people are going to go through this. > > To avoid the issue the obvious solution would be to use the custom > install option of the Debian installer and skip the Grub set-up phase. > However, it seems custom install is not as thoroughly tested as > default install. I have encountered numerous problems with custom > install and have decided not to use it.
And then there's that old bootloader That Just Works(TM): https://0x0.st/zUux.conf Write whatever custom entry you need with $EDITOR. -- There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance — that principle is contempt prior to investigation. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
