Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0

[J. Greenlees]

Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> I'm not sure if the community has decided what direction to take here. I 
> need to get some kind of boot loader into the jh branch (currently there 
> is none) so I will be playing around with a more flexible approach to 
> installing one there.
>   
Personally, on the svn version I'm doing a test build with, I went lilo
before starting and made sure I had the sources and dependencies sources.
[ lilo depends on nasm according to the hint on the website for
"beautifying lilo" ]

> Basically, I'm going to create a bootloader sub-section inside chapter 8 
> "Making the LFS System Bootable". Seems appropriate. The section will 
> contain (at least for now) instructions for patched grub legacy and lilo 
> and allow a user to make a choice. The sub-section could also point to 
> other alternatives, even listing 'use the host's bootloader 
> configuration' as an option.
>
> Maybe then the community can decide if it wants to merge the whole 
> section over, or just use bits of it, or even go a completely different 
> direction.

With the direction for LFS discussions, isn't presenting the options in
keeping with the general input for the direction, which was to make LFS
more a guide to creating a distro if I remember correctly than just a
guide to building a linux system?

Jaqui