Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0

[J. Greenlees]

Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:

> J. Greenlees wrote:

>> 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" ]

> Are you sure? The LiveCD contains LILO and uses bin86, bot nasm, to
build it.

Nope, I'm not sure. I got that dep from:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/PREVIOUS_FORMAT/lilo.txt

1. What do you need 
   ----------------

     lilo-22.2 

	 or

	 lilo-22.3.2
	 nasm-0.98.34

	 (just install nasm the way you usually install packages) 


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a hint that is up for adoption so is badly outdated.

> This, by itself, looks right. Let's see if the book and our resources
can bear this.

and what Jeremy is doing by including options in the dev version is a
start to that.

Jaqui