On Tuesday 04 August 2009 14:06:59 Justin P. Mattock wrote: > Michael Tsang wrote: > > On Monday 03 August 2009 20:04:16 Ken Moffat wrote: > >> 2009/8/3 Justin P. Mattock<[email protected]>: > >> On x86_64, I use "pure64". But then, I'm happy to use lilo and I've > >> no need of pre-built binaries. Certainly, building multilib is very > >> educational (when things go wrong). > >> > >> ĸen > > > > I always build "pure64" and always use the boot loader from the host. > > I don't want to use lilo because it has been deprecated for a long time > > in favour of GRUB. I think multilib is a waste of both disk space and > > manpower. Because the whole system is built from source, all the static > > libraries and 32-bit libraries are useless. > > I'm seeing something interesting here, while > creating the partition table I'm noticing > mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/* > goes really fast, then loading the filesystem up > I'm only allowed 200mb or so. > > Am I seeing this correctly, > for the boot partition I have to create ext3 then > converted to ext4 in order to use ext4 > (not partitioned to only ext4) > > Justin P. Mattock
For GRUB legacy, you need to patch the source to have ext4, build it, and run install-grub *BEFORE* you convert the /boot partition to ext4
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