Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0

[Greg Schafer]

Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:

> 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:

Hi Alex, interesting. A couple of questions/observations.

 - Does the problem exist when Grub installation is run in its preferred
 native mode as per the Grub docs? ie: not run from within a running Linux
 kernel, but instead run from eg: a floppy before any OS is loaded?

 - There is nothing stopping folks from changing the default Inode size
 back to 128 via editing /etc/mke2fs.conf or via a command line switch.
 LFS could just warn, yes? That's not so horribly broken, is it?

 - LFS could change its install paradigm. There is no need to create the
 target partition immediately from the outset. For example, I
 intentionally changed this aspect in the DIY Refbuild in order to avoid
 the situation that's occurred in the past whereby creating a target fs
 with a too new E2fsprogs (think Fedora host) causes incompatibilities
 with the (older) version being installed.

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

What about Grub2? The time must be getting near.. Anyone use it?

Regards
Greg
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