Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Justin P. Mattock wrote: > >> quick question, >> with a new fresh system in the /where directory >> is there a way to adjust grub on the host system >> to actually boot the new system, before moving the newly created >> system to / >> > > You don't give particulars but if you built on a separate partition, than you > just set up that partition as root: > > > title LFS 6.5 > root (hd0,4) > kernel /boot/linux-2.6.30.2 root=/dev/sda5 > > > Personally, I like to set up a separate 100MB partition that is mounted as > /boot > and then all my builds put the kernels in the same place. Then the grub > configuration looks like: > > itle LFS-dev-2.6.12.5-20051115 > root (hd0,2) > kernel /linux-2.6.12.5-20071115 root=/dev/sda5 > > title LFS-dev-2.6.22.5 > root (hd0,2) > kernel /linux-2.6.22.5 root=/dev/sda6 > > etc. In this case the /boot partition is sda3. > > > -- Bruce > I like that idea, so you would have let's say 3 or 4 100mb test runs setup for multi booting.
so a simple scheme would be like this: (using the system I have now I would do:) /dev/sda1 /boot (containing grub) /dev/sda2 /ext3 (containing a x86_32 system) /dev/sda4 /ext4 ( containing a x86_64 system). /dev/sda* Seems better to do a scheme like that. Justin P. Mattock -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
