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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-09-11 21:35:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-09-11 21:35:35 +0000 |
| commit | 955533beaf30ff65be18b3e5c1e3909928dd169a (patch) | |
| tree | ed52a9832d7dcf2d6cbdb556054b8191dd753e4c /chapter08 | |
| parent | c94dd38cc7fe0ec74ad95516eb6a8c3efe9d0fc6 (diff) | |
Removed LILO and Bin86. Replaced them with Grub
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2774 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter08')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter08/chapter08.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter08/grub.xml | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter08/lilo.xml | 48 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 49 deletions
diff --git a/chapter08/chapter08.xml b/chapter08/chapter08.xml index 2b6e70ab7..90ef69e72 100644 --- a/chapter08/chapter08.xml +++ b/chapter08/chapter08.xml @@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ &c8-introduction; &c8-fstab; &c8-kernel; -&c8-lilo; +&c8-grub; </chapter> diff --git a/chapter08/grub.xml b/chapter08/grub.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8585aad12 --- /dev/null +++ b/chapter08/grub.xml @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +<sect1 id="ch08-grub"> +<title>Making the LFS system bootable</title> +<?dbhtml filename="grub.html" dir="chapter08"?> + +<para>(To be filled in)</para> + +</sect1> + diff --git a/chapter08/lilo.xml b/chapter08/lilo.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 4c7cb1fa0..000000000 --- a/chapter08/lilo.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,48 +0,0 @@ -<sect1 id="ch08-lilo"> -<title>Making the LFS system bootable</title> -<?dbhtml filename="lilo.html" dir="chapter08"?> - -<para>In order to be able to boot the LFS system, we need to update our -bootloader. We're assuming that your host system is using Lilo (since -that's the most commonly used boot loader at the moment).</para> - -<para>We will not be running the lilo program inside chroot. Running lilo -inside chroot can have fatal side-effects which render your MBR useless -and you'd need a boot disk to be able to start any Linux system (either -the host system or the LFS system).</para> - -<para>First we'll exit chroot and copy the lfskernel file to the host -system:</para> - -<para><screen><userinput>logout</userinput> -<userinput>cp $LFS/boot/lfskernel /boot</userinput></screen></para> - -<para>The next step is adding an entry to /etc/lilo.conf so that we can -choose LFS when booting the computer:</para> - -<para><screen><userinput>cat >> /etc/lilo.conf << "EOF"</userinput> -image=/boot/lfskernel - label=lfs - root=<partition> - read-only -<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen></para> - -<para><partition> must be replaced with the LFS -partition's designation.</para> - -<para>Also note that if you are using reiserfs for your root partition, -the line <userinput>read-only</userinput> should be changed to -<userinput>read-write</userinput>.</para> - -<para>Now, update the boot loader by running:</para> - -<para><screen><userinput>/sbin/lilo -v</userinput></screen></para> - -<para>The last step is synchronizing the host system's lilo -configuration files with the LFS system's:</para> - -<para><screen><userinput>cp /etc/lilo.conf $LFS/etc -cp $(grep "image.*=" /etc/lilo.conf | cut -f 2 -d "=") $LFS/boot</userinput></screen></para> - -</sect1> - |