Michael Tsang wrote: > 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 > hey alright she boots-up.
With not knowing what to do for grub I ended up using grub2 which seems to boot ext4 without having to partition to ext3 and converting to ext4. in dmesg the only issue I see is: EXT2-fs: sda3: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional feature (240) EXT3-fs: sda3: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional feature (244) then goes on to mounting ext4 (Anyways I'm going to see how much of a pain it is to build the xserver x86_64, bit just to see). Justin P. Mattock -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
