On 19 October 2012 17:23, Feuerbacher, Alan <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like some clarification of the boot process after installing LFS. > > My Intel machine has 3 disks: > > /dev/sda (1TB) has WindowsXP on it, and the Master Boot Record. fdisk > indicates that its only partition is marked boot. > > /dev/sdb (500GB) has a Debian installation with 3 partitions, including Linux > swap, with the 1st partition marked by fdisk as boot. > > /dev/sdc (300GB) has LFS (in the process of being installed), has a bunch of > partitions for /, /boot, swap, /usr and so forth, with the /boot partition > /dev/sdc5 marked by fdisk as boot. > > When I boot the system now (with LFS GRUB not yet installed) I get Debian's > boot loader, which gives me a choice of Debian and Windows. > > After I install LFS GRUB and reboot, what should I expect to see? How does > GRUB figure out where to put its new boot information? > > Thanks, as usual. > Alan
To make sure LFS boots properly firstly start Debian and as root do update-grub. That process should pick up LFS (assuming the LFS kernel installation is completed). If running update-grub doesn't pick up LFS you might need to install a package in Debian called os-prober. I haven't tried installing grub from LFS yet. -- rob -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
