Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-18 Thread William Harrington
On Dec 18, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: /usr/share/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib: line 53: 12058 Segmentation fault (core dumped) ${grub_probe} -t fs $path /dev/null 21 Path `/boot/grub' is not readable by GRUB on boot. Installation is impossible. Aborting. Did you use

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Harrington wrote: On Dec 18, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: /usr/share/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib: line 53: 12058 Segmentation fault (core dumped) ${grub_probe} -t fs $path /dev/null 21 Path `/boot/grub' is not readable by GRUB on boot. Installation is impossible. Aborting.

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-18 Thread loki
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 09:24 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: Are you trying to do this on a UEFI system? Dan Nope. I'm not even sure that this old rig is EFI capable :) And secondly I'm too lazy to learn it since for the servers that I use 4 primary partitions is the most I'm going to use and

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-18 Thread William Harrington
On Dec 18, 2013, at 2:08 PM, loki wrote: Yup. -O3 -march=native. And that said, something comes into my mind that I've read somewhere that grub does not play well with -O3. Thanks. Will try that on Friday. Don't optimize the bootloader. Grub doesn't need optimizations. No bootloader

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-18 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/18/2013 02:08 PM, loki wrote: On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 09:24 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: Are you trying to do this on a UEFI system? Dan Nope. I'm not even sure that this old rig is EFI

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/18/2013 02:08 PM, loki wrote: On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 09:24 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: Are you trying to do this on a UEFI system? Dan Nope. I'm not even sure that this old rig is EFI capable :) And secondly I'm too lazy to learn it since for the servers that I use 4

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-18 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/18/2013 03:44 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/18/2013 02:08 PM, loki wrote: On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 09:24 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: Are you trying to do this on a UEFI system? Dan Nope. I'm not even sure that this old rig is EFI capable :) And secondly I'm too lazy to

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-18 Thread akhiezer
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:44:17 -0600 From: Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com To: LFS Support List lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB . . The trick for grub users is to get it to look across the partitions without

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-18 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/18/2013 04:09 PM, akhiezer wrote: Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:00:11 -0600 From: Dan McGhee beesn...@grm.net To: LFS Support List lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB [...] But, AFIK, the user must *make* the partition behave with the

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/18/2013 04:09 PM, akhiezer wrote: Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:00:11 -0600 From: Dan McGhee beesn...@grm.net To: LFS Support List lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB [...] But, AFIK, the user must *make* the

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB

2013-12-18 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/18/2013 05:54 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/18/2013 04:09 PM, akhiezer wrote: And, again IIUYC re 'primaries': no such concept in GPT, at least not in pre-GPT sense; and in pre-GPT sense, yes, the spec only allows for 4 primaries anyhow. This is another source of