On 10/19/19 11:38 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote:
On 19/10/2019 17:07, Trent wrote:
On 10/17/19 6:26 AM, hazel debian wrote:
You should not mount the "BIOS boot" partition at /boot or anywhere
else. In fact you don't even need to have a filesystem on it. GRUB
installs its second part on that empty partition, and the first part
(which is in the dummy MBR) should locate it by its physical address.
I think you may be confusing this with the "boot partition"
mentioned in the book, which is actually something quite different.
It is a normal partition with a filesystem on it that is used to
contain kernels when you are multibooting LFS with other Linuxes.
The team recommend having this common boot partition for all your
systems and mounting it on /boot in each of them.
I finished the rebuild on a single partition, with the "bios_grub"
flag set.
Hmm, it's not what Hazel has written. On a GPT partition system,
you need at least two partitions (OK not mandatory, but easiest): one
which is the "bios boot"
(flag bios_grub in parted), which can be very small (1MB), and another
one for the system.
Of course, you may have more partitions if you want separate
partitions for /boot, /home, or /usr.
Do not format the "bios boot" partition, do not try to mount it. Mount
the second partition on /mnt/lfs instead. Build your system on it,
then you can install grub.
Pierre
Okay, I am already back on this again. I rebuilt the system again on
that branded SSD I mentioned I would try this time. I ran into an odd
problem during grub-install so I decided to rebuild again. The rebuild
is about halfway done.
On the first try for this SSD, I put only one partition on it of type ext4.
When I ran "grub-install /dev/sdX --target i386-pc" it came back with
"grub does not support ext2."
Wow.
Rather than spend time on trying to figure that out, I went ahead and
cleared the drive out, then made two partitions.
/dev/sdX1 Unformated
/dev/sdX2 ext
I am building now on /dev/sdX2.
With that, that is one thing not specifically clear. Do I run the
grub-install command for /dev/sdX, or for the unformatted partition of
/dev/sdX1?
Thanks again!
Trent
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