On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 10:50:09AM -0500, Scott Harvey wrote: > > It's also got to be legible on a wide variety of screens! :-) > > Before doing LFS, I'd built and ran the 5.0 kernel when it was still at > rc-1. Just because it was 5.0 - only a number, but still a milestone. And I > wanted to try. > > I thank you all for the words of advice. I think the most important step I > need to take next is to sit down, re-read everything, and understand the > intricacies of what I'm doing. > > Working on this spare computer will be more comfortable, whatever it takes > to get there. Because I'll have room to press on into BLFS... and whatever > comes next. > > Thanks, all.
On my current laptop, I started with manjaro because that was the only distro with UEFI which could reliably boot it (probably a pre-release version of manjaro, neither Arch nor SystemRescueCD could usually mange to boot it). Somehow, this machine is still running a 5.0-rc kernel because I have not got back down to slimming-down the kernel config. So, two suggestions: 1. In manjaro, use lsmod and lspci to try to identify what is actually used (unfortunately, matching modules names to .config options is no-longer easy). My kernel config based on manjaro initially had several thousand modules (after I had identified what really needed to be built-in). 2. If you don't have a wired ethernet port, you need to build the modules for whichever wifi chipset you are using, and you may need to add firmware (check dmesg) - I found building modules for mine simplified the "boot, review which firmware is now missing, install it in /lib/modules, repeat" cycle. And obviously you need a package from BLFS such as wpa_supplicant to be able to use wifi, and a way of getting a dhcp address. You might also need rfkill while sorting out the wifi. Oh, and if the machine's CPU is not the same as, or a superset of, the machine on which you built LFS, you may need to rebuild gmp if you didn't use the configfsf scripts. And although I'm a fan of using '-march=native' in my CFLAGS, that is fairly catastrophic for trying to build for a different micro-architecture :) ĸen -- With a few red lights, a few old bits, we made the place to sweat. No matter what we get out of this, I know, I know we'll never forget. Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky. Smoke, on the water. -- 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
