Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Hello,

as explained in http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2161 (a blocker), 
due to recent changes in e2fsprogs, Grub-0.97 no longer works (cannot read any 
files from the resulting filesystem, cannot be installed into MBR, and the book 
is thus horribly broken). There are a couple of tickets about alternative boot 
loaders:

http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2093: just a proposal to add a new 
section about boot loaders;

http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1955: duplicate, but with more 
discussion.

Did anyone investigate the boot loader options further? What should be done for 
LFS-7.0?

And before anyone objects to LILO on the basis that you must not forget to run 
it: write the /sbin/installkernel script and run "make install" in the kernel 
tree (it calls /sbin/installkernel, that should rename and install bzImage and 
update the boot loader), and the problem of forgetting to run lilo will go away.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov