Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0

Bruce Dubbs bruce.dubbs at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 10:47:30 MDT 2008


Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 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.

What distros use the new version of e2fsprogs?  What boot loader do
those distro's use?

  -- Bruce


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