On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 02:58:07PM -0700, Paul Rogers wrote:
> > I had went into ch.8.3., and do not want doing lfs for bootable, at
> > least now.
> > May I hope that this situation will keep when I will work with BLFS?
> > Thank.
> >
>
> That will work, as outlined previously, up to a certain point. When you
> install networking packages to your BLFS system, and when you install
> things that need it, or when you install the GUI, or certain other
> things, e.g. perl modules, you should be in the BLFS system natively.
>
Paul, why do you say that about perl modules ? I have been known to
build a few in chroot. Similarly for networking packages - I
install nfs and dhclient in chroot (although at the moment I
normally run with fixed addresses, I now only occasionally use
dhclient, for testing). For the GUI, some mozilla packages need
hand-holding (the book does that), everything else should build just
fine. Whether it works, of course, will only become apparent after
you have booted to the new system.
In particular, debian (depending on which variant you are following)
may use older versions (stable) or newer (sometimes, in testing) and
will often add a lot of patches. Those patches are mostly for
building on other architectures (or occasionally hurd or FreeBSD)
and for adding manpages, or for removing 'non-free' parts, but on
occasion (as with any other distro) they may alter *how* a package
works - therefore saying "I'll build the BLFS version of this because
it works nicely in debian" is not guaranteed to always give nice
results.
> It seems you've got a Debian host, so you may not WANT to install GRUB
> in your BLFS system! Debian can multi-boot your BLFS system just fine.
>
I haven't seen any of the OP's posts (I turned off virginmedia's spam
filtering for this account last week, but it doesn't seem to have
made any difference to this poster), but what I haven't seen in
replies is that until you actually boot the LFS system you won't
know if your kernel config, and the boot= part of its entry in grub,
is correct.
Some people spend days getting their kernel config to be bootable in
LFS (no modules for your LFS filesystem(s) and disk controller(s)).
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