Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

2008/3/19, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs at gmail.com>:

> My position is that we should stay with grup 0.97 and the compatible
> version of e2fsprogs until upstream gets the problems worked out.

This doesn't work: GRUB has to be compatible not only with the LFS
version of e2fsprogs, but also with the hosts's version. We expect
GRUB to boot not only LFS, but also a host distro. If a host distro
uses a new ext3 filesystem, we have a big problem.

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Alexander E. Patrakov