brown wrap schrieb: [...] > So here is my question. If I move the external drive inside and make it the > first drive, will I be able to boot, even though LFS is on the 2nd partiton? > I don't want to, but I could move everyting over to the first partition, but > I'd have to wipe it out, which I don't want to do.
First of all, does your machine support booting from an external device? I tried booting from an external USB HDD, and failed miserably although the mainboard claimed to support that. To have clarity here, test booting with something on external drive which usually boots. I have a working installation on a second _internal_ disk, but I didn't reinstall the bootloader on first disk. Instead I followed the instructions at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter08/grub.html in the "Warning" box, and linked the boot entry via "chainloader". The only minor obstacle for me was the broken naming: my disks were called sda and hda instead of sda and sdb, due to a legacy driver for my internal Promise TX133 PATA controller. When installing grub on sdb2 (in my case) on the host system, it wrote sdb2 to /boot/grub/menu.lst, but when booting the device should have been hda2. Can be fixed easily, because you can enter the grub shell on boot and then use setup (hd<TAB>) to see what devices are there. Then edit the entry appropriately and have fun. Cheers, Jan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
