On 10/30/2013 11:26 AM, Casey Daniels wrote: > On 10/30/2013 12:17 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: >> Anyway, I just wanted to share what I have discovered. This may lead to >> posts like, "I did this and it didn't work. The book needs to be >> changed." The implementation of LFS, configuring and installing both >> the kernel and GRUB can be successful regardless of how the BIOS boots. >> There is a learning curve though. And some of GRUB's building and >> installing arguments need to be a little different. >> >> Dan >> > I played with UEFI Boot for almost a week and couldn't get anywhere with > it. I could get Grub Loaded, and and I could get grub to find the > Kernel, but then it would ALWAYS fail at some memory point during the > Kernel load, and I played and played with the kernel for that week and > it keep freezing at the same point. > > The thing with UEFI Boot is you don't need Grub to boot if you don't > want to. If you have a Linux only or Windows only, computer you can > actually boot with out user input without a bootloader. From my > understanding though if you have a dualboot system you need at a minimum > a boot manager to boot without user intervention. If you don't mind > typing a few commands you can boot with out a boot manager or bootloader > in a dual boot system, you just have to understand the UEFI Shell you get. > > Casey Casey, your experience confirms what I have learned by reading and my own experience. Yes, on dual boot you need a manager to get to the loader you want. That's one of the functions of the EFI partition. I don't want to address your specific situation until I have practical experience with my LFS build and that won't be for a couple of more days.
If you have not been successful in booting your LFS system and you want to "play," I recommend turning off secure boot, checking your kernel configuration to support efi and running <grub-install --help> to select the arguments you use for grub. I just finished reading "grub-install" and it looks like it should detect your partition type--MBR or GPT. I don't want to suggest anything definite because I haven't "proved" them with my own experience. One of the possible outcomes is that your computer won't boot. I would rather be the victim of my own eperiments rather than having someone else be that victim. :) Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
