Bruce wrote: > > Can you suggest any technical resources where I might learn the gory > details of this? > > Read the source: Look in GRUB ./grub-core/boot/i386/pc/boot.S
Ok. > Every directory is written in the inode structure of it's parent. This > is implemented using hard links. To learn about this you really need > to read a book about the kernel internals. I really don't want to look > up all the details. You might want to read something like: > > http://www.amazon.com/The-Linux-Kernel-Book-Card/dp/0471981419 > > Look on ebay for a much lower price. It's old but the concepts are > valid. I found one for $0.99. :-) Bought a couple of later books as well. > > So what would you suggest for a machine that would ultimately be home > to several distros, LFS and Windows, using GPT? Perhaps something like > this (following the names from my own GPT installation)? > > . . . > > I'd change /usr to /home, Is that so /home can be used across distros? > otherwise it's OK. > > I only have 17 on sda, 7 on sdb and 2 on sdc. Is that number of distros, or number of partitions? :-) Last night I decided to just go with what I had already set up by way of GPT and LVM, and started building LFS. As of this morning, I had gotten to testing gcc in the 2nd pass. So everything appears to be happy. Let's see what happens when I get to the end of the LFS book tonight. Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
