Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0

[Matthew Burgess]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:07:01 -0600, Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork at linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:46:31AM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>> Did anyone investigate the boot loader options further? What should be
> done for
>> LFS-7.0?
> 
> Based on what I've read, I vote for switching to LILO as the default.
> This has the advantage of making things easier for bringing x86_64
> support into LFS, that is, if we're still wantint to do that for 7.0.

Does LILO still require NASM?  My (not-so-strict) criteria for a boot-loader are:

1) Is compatible with other packages in LFS
2) Is compatible with the widest range of architectures as possible - with the assumption that at some point x86, x86-64 and possibly PPC will be supported if not by stock-LFS, by CLFS and having a common-bootloader between them just makes sense from a support POV.
3) Doesn't come with 'the kitchen sink' - last I looked, GRUB2 was spawning scripting abilities, JPEG, TGA and PNG parsers, audio file parsers, etc.  I just want it to jumpstart my kernel, not provide its own desktop-environment! (I understand that some people like graphical bootloaders where image format parsing might be useful, but I personally spend so little time looking at the boot menu I don't see the benefit myself).

Out of the ones Alexander listed, I've only ever heard of Gujin but have never tried it.  As is probably evident, out of laziness, I don't install GRUB as per the book's instructions - I just rely on my host system's GRUB.

Regards,

Matt.