Em 04-02-2016 19:09, Ken Moffat escreveu: > This time, I would like to be able to use distros (different from > what other people are using to test) to build release candidates. > > Ideally, I want to be able to install/replace these in the future, > telling them to only use their own partition, and then I can > chainload them from grub. Among other things, it has been suggested > that the distro controlling /boot (LFS) needs to be installed first.
Not really. You can chroot to the one you want and install its grub. > But at the moment I'm using the spinning-rust drive as a test run, > before I install a smaller SDD, and since I had no bootloader I > could let the first distro install one. > First up was mint - this went to the partition I pointed it to, and > installed grub on the disk. I did not see any option for not > installing the bootloader. But I know that other people are testing > with 'buntu-derived distros, so I'll probably let this distro go. > > Then I tried to install OpenSuSe Leap > After that I tried Fedora 23 > I'm beginning to think I might just put distros on the traditional > HD, if necessary erasing it each time, and only install one at a > time - but that seems a bit of a waste. > > After I had made sure I could set up Mint as-needed, and then > Fedora, I went back to using SystemRescueCD and installed the LFS > binary. > > Now I've got 7.8 installed and mostly working (audio not yet tested), > so I will be able to copy that (or a new build) to the SSD when I'm > clearer about exactly how I'm going to procede. So at least some of > this is going ok. > > Yes, I did get the usual "I didn't expect that" items, e.g 'make' > segfaulting when chrooted from SystemRescueCD - fortunately I already > had the right ethernet driver as a module in the binary I had copied > and I had installed LFS's grub from chroot : 'make' is fine > after booting. Fun, ain't it. > > Sorry (but only a little) for rambling When I used just one HD, you know I used to modify /etc/grub.d/40_custom, so that the non-LFS grub was used, and 40_custom included the lines I would put in an LFS only system. Described in some old posts. Needs to make backups, so I could compare, delete lines from grub.cfg and move those of LFS to the point I wanted. Now, I have a more convenient setup with two HD's (second is in the box, but could also be USB). What I do is to change the order for boot: sdb has Mint and grub from Mint, whereas sda has LFS and LFS grub. I needed because all I had was i686 and I wanted to build LFS x86_64, Then installed Mint x_86_64. At post, if I need, I change the order of boot, and so, get the one I want. -- []s, Fernando, aka SÃsifo -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
