On 12/19/2013 01:22 PM, William Immendorf wrote:
Thanks for posting advice for EFI users. You should probally make this
into a hint sometime soon. I might want to add info about Gummiboot
[1] (or at least mention it) - it's really useful if you want to take
advantage of EFI and still be able to choose almost instantly which OS
you want to boot into. And you should also mention that the GPT tools
are essential if you are building LFS on a EFI-enabled system.
William
[1]: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gummiboot/ - This requires
gnu-efi (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gnu-efi-libs/),
which in turn requires PCIUtils (I think). Gummiboot doesn't have a
dedicated package host, but you can see the git repo (and get snapshot
archives) from http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gummiboot/
You're welcome, William. I wrote it this way as a result of a
conversation on this list a couple of months ago. A hint, if this is
not somehow incorporated into the book, is advisable.
I purposefully didn't mention gummiboot because I wanted my presentation
to be as minimal as possible. The same reason for no logic and
references. I really like gummiboot. And yes, it it PCIutils that it needs.
Thanks for mentioning GPT tools. Parted uses them, but I'm so used to
using it that I didn't think to include it in my write up.
While I've got you on the phone :) , I cannot get my LFS system to be
gummiboot's default. This is my loader.conf:
timeout 10
default lfs74.conf
Have I not identified the LFS loader properly? The gummiboot examples
have a number in their example loader.conf and I don't know whether
that's a machine ID or UUID.
Dan
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