On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 02:13:02PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > For one thing it resolved my paranoia about where grub would write. > I would describe that as "sensible caution", not paranoia. I've irretrievably bricked one machine, and I don't wish that on anyone. In my case (the notorious AmigaOne - I overheated mine one time too many, but it took me a long while to realise what had been happening) and I had learned enough about the hardware to make me give up, and it wasn't _that_ expensive, unlike apple products.
> Yes, the different distro sites seem to be rather silent on this stuff. > And you found something that I was hesitant to mention. This stuff does > depend a lot on vendors. Many have written their own Boot Managers and > I've found many comments and articles on how "buggy and unreliable" many > are. As of a year ago, HP was one of those that had lots of > complaints. That may be something else I need to research. rEFInd and > gummiboot, look out I may be headed your way. > Ah, I didn't realise it was the hardware vendors. Thanks for clarifying. > As I've said, I'd like to accomplish two things: 1) get LFS-7.4 to boot > in a UEFI environment, and 2) do it in a way that will be useful to LFS. > > Thank you very much, Ken, for your efforts. > > Dan > Thank you. I hope it turns out well, and look forward to reading more. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
