Re: Grub2 and ext4

2010-10-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:11:18 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: there were comments that versions of Fedora prior to Version 11 or something did not support booting from grub2, but as of 11 or 12

Re: Grub2 and ext4

2010-10-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:28:05 +0100 Hi Andrew, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote: If it doesn't already know where the /boot partition is then it will never read grub.cfg so the line will not be parsed by

LFS Init scripts?

2010-09-30 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've recently found LFS. Thanks to those that feed and care for it. Nice project. I've read through the book once and started my first build. It's proceeding fine. I'm typically a Gentoo user so most of what's going on in terms of building software is relatively familiar and I'm not

Re: LFS Init scripts?

2010-09-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    I've recently found LFS. Thanks to those that feed and care for it. Nice project.    I've read through the book once and started my first build. It's proceeding fine. I'm typically a Gentoo

Re: LFS Init scripts?

2010-09-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Ken Moffat k...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 01:32:09PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Bruce. I'm sure that will help me move forward. Am I fooling myself in thinking that for a very simple hardware system, maybe just an EXT2 boot

Re: auto in /etc/fstab

2010-09-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:18 PM, rhubarb...@poetworld.net wrote: Is there a disadvantage of using auto for file system type in the /etc/fstab file?  I have three non-swap partitions.  Why not list them all as auto? I don't really know the answer to your question but if it's of interest then