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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