Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

2008/4/3, Alexander Kozlov <akozlov at nada.kth.se>:
>  > Bryan Kadzban wrote:
>  >> Since that's the problem, we could move in one of two directions
>  >> to fix it: either stop using any filesystem driver in the
>  >> bootloader(which means, at this point, "move to LILO"), or fix
>  >> the ext2/3 driver in grub (with the patch).
>
>  Just wonder, why not SYSLINUX? Not friendly, true, but mighty
>  powerful and flexible. Could be a chapter in BLFS too.

Syslinux does come with a boot loader that can boot Linux kernels from
ext2 filesystems, is actively maintained, and is thus a valid
candidate for inclusion in LFS, together with its dependency on nasm.
However, not everyone uses ext2/ext3, so it cannot be the only
candidate.

As for BLFS: my own opinion is that it contains after-the-first-reboot
steps, and installing a boot loader is not one of such steps. Even
more: various non_ext2-fsprogs don't actually belong there.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov