From 360e2c43cd050de14a654927da9a7610af9e38ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Gronenwoud Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:26:46 +0000 Subject: Adding some markup and doing miscellaneous shuffles. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3029 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter08/fstab.xml | 13 +++++++------ chapter08/grub.xml | 10 +++++----- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'chapter08') diff --git a/chapter08/fstab.xml b/chapter08/fstab.xml index c52daee44..83ddc1ab3 100644 --- a/chapter08/fstab.xml +++ b/chapter08/fstab.xml @@ -32,12 +32,13 @@ end of the line should be replaced with 0 0, as such a partition does not need to be dumped or checked The /dev/shm mount point for tmpfs is included to -enable POSIX shared memory. Your kernel must have the required support built -into it for this to work. More about this in the next section. Please note that -currently, very little software actually uses POSIX shared memory. Therefore you -can consider the /dev/shm mount optional. For more -information, see Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt in the -kernel source tree. +allow enabling POSIX shared memory. Your kernel must have the required support +built into it for this to work -- more about this in the next section. Please +note that currently very little software actually uses POSIX shared memory. +Therefore you can consider the /dev/shm mount point +optional. For more information, see +Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt in the kernel source +tree. There are other lines which you may consider adding to your fstab file. One example is a line to use if you intend to diff --git a/chapter08/grub.xml b/chapter08/grub.xml index 0c59f4eef..6ed20b328 100644 --- a/chapter08/grub.xml +++ b/chapter08/grub.xml @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Insert a blank floppy diskette and run the following commands: dd if=/boot/grub/stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1 Remove the diskette and store it somewhere safe. Now we'll run the -grub shell. +grub shell: grub @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ files -- you can use Tab everywhere to make Grub show the alternatives: Don't run the command if this is not what you want. For example, you may be using a third party boot manager to manage your MBR (Master Boot Record). In this scenario, it would probably make more sense to install Grub into the -"boot sector" of the LFS partition, in which case the command would become -setup (hd0,3): +"boot sector" of the LFS partition, in which case the command would become: +setup (hd0,3). @@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ this scenario, it would probably make more sense to install Grub into the quit -Now we need to create the menu.lst file, which -defines Grub's boot menu: +Now we need to create a "menu list" file, defining Grub's boot +menu: cat > /boot/grub/menu.lst << "EOF" # Begin /boot/grub/menu.lst -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf