On 12/19/2013 01:22 PM, William Immendorf wrote: > Thanks for posting advice for EFI users. You should probally make this > into a hint sometime soon. I might want to add info about Gummiboot > [1] (or at least mention it) - it's really useful if you want to take > advantage of EFI and still be able to choose almost instantly which OS > you want to boot into. And you should also mention that the GPT tools > are essential if you are building LFS on a EFI-enabled system. > > William > > [1]: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gummiboot/ - This requires > gnu-efi (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gnu-efi-libs/), > which in turn requires PCIUtils (I think). Gummiboot doesn't have a > dedicated package host, but you can see the git repo (and get snapshot > archives) from http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gummiboot/ You're welcome, William. I wrote it this way as a result of a "conversation" on this list a couple of months ago. A hint, if this is not somehow incorporated into the book, is advisable.
I purposefully didn't mention gummiboot because I wanted my presentation to be as "minimal" as possible. The same reason for "no logic" and references. I really like gummiboot. And yes, it it PCIutils that it needs. Thanks for mentioning GPT tools. Parted uses them, but I'm so used to using it that I didn't think to include it in my write up. While I've got you on the phone :) , I cannot get my LFS system to be gummiboot's default. This is my loader.conf: > timeout 10 > default lfs74.conf Have I not identified the LFS loader properly? The gummiboot examples have a number in their example loader.conf and I don't know whether that's a machine ID or UUID. Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
