Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0

[Sebastian Faulborn]

>> > > 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?
>   

>> Version 1.95 was not installable at all if root is on LVM2 (even if
>> /boot is on a plain partition). They released version 1.96 on March,
>> 3, and it is indeed a good idea to test it. According to Debian, this
>> particular incompatibility doesn't affect Grub2, but it still uses its
>> own ext2 driver and thus is not protected from this kind of bugs in
>> the future.
>>
>> --
>> Alexander E. Patrakov

How do you mean - "not installable at all if root is on LVM2"? I have been
using LVM2 on root together with grub for the last 2 years without problems...

Grub is only used for loading the kernel and starting it - so as long as grub
can read the /boot partition it's fine...

Sebastian Faulborn