Lennon Cook wrote: > I'm about to be re-doing LFS (using the GCC4 book, while I built my > current system using the 6.1-pre1 book), and I'm wondering: if /boot > is on a separate partition, do I need to reinstall Grub as part of > LFS, or will my current one still do the job? That is to say: are > there any files that Grub installs outside of /boot or the MBR that it > needs in order to work properly? >
Strictly speaking you are correct, the only files used by grub during the boot are the ones in the /boot used when setup was run - that's what's in the MBR. Just be careful that when the time comes for you to re-use the partition containing your old LFS's boot, that you have, by then, built grub and re-run setup to point grub at the new partition. Frankly though, for the time it takes, you may as well build it as part of the new LFS build - you can then choose which /boot to setup (with root (hd?,?)). Once grub stage1_5 has loaded, grub has enough smarts to see all your partitions, so even if your currently-pointed-to /boot/grub/menu.lst doesn't have the right entries, you can always hit 'c' and drive it with the command line (learn how to do this soon :-). R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
