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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2016-04-05 19:23:02 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2016-04-05 19:23:02 +0000
commitd73074290425cf0fbe7e7ee6cb1d8c1b86a31533 (patch)
treeb61c164fdc7bdfbc0bf297fea1615429f621216c /chapter08
parent6934b62fcfd219a322c17abf4b18a0663d4f3ed9 (diff)
Remove obsolete note about iconv() in Chapter 6 Glibc.
Minor adjustments to text in the same section. Add a note about UEFI and Secure Boot to Chapter 8 "Using GRUB to Set Up the Boot Process". Add notes about paths for 64-bit systems in Chapter 6 "Adjusting the Toolchain". + git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11043 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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@@ -38,6 +38,16 @@
grub-mkrescue --output=grub-img.iso
xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrw blank=as_needed grub-img.iso</userinput></screen>
+ <note><para>Most newer systems now come with system firmware that is in
+ UEFI ((Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) mode by default. To boot LFS
+ on these systems using the instructions here, the UEFI Mode and Secure Boot
+ capabilities need to be turned off. There are ways to boot with these
+ capabilities still enabled, but are not covered here. For details, see
+ <ulink
+ url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/lfs-uefi.txt">the
+ lfs-uefi.txt hint</ulink> at
+ http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/lfs-uefi.txt.</para></note>
+
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