Simon Geard wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:58:56 -0500, Baho Utot <baho-u...@columbus.rr.com> > wrote: > >> Yikes.....my hand done builds and my now scripts/Makefile/Build system >> worked so far! >> >> On i686 or x86_64 platform...... >> >> I want to boot this from a USB thumb drive. >> Any pointers on what I need to set? >> > > Since you're booting off USB storage, USB support needs to be built-in, not > compiled as a module. Conversely, anything relating to IDE/SATA support can > be made a module, since it's no longer needed to boot. Otherwise, a flash > drive should be fairly similar to any other system... > >
Ok thanks, I would have missed the SATA/IDE as modules, I did pickup on that it is a good thing to have ext2/3 built in. >> Also is there a "generic" config file around for i686? >> Just the basic minimal needed, so I can add things as I go. >> > > Not really. X86 hardware is so varied, there's no such thing as generic, > short of enabling every possible driver like the distros do. And that's > certainly not what you'd call minimal. The kernel defaults are as good a > starting point as any, but you'd still be spending half an hour or so going > through the menus, working out what's relevant to you and what isn't. > > Simon. > What I was hoping for is that if you look at each section separtly in the kernel configuration, I think there are things that need to be set as in BSD accounting etc that would/is required for LFS, I understand that one can't get generic on the hardware. If there was a kernel config that had everything that "must" be set then I could take that and add the hardware piece to it. I'll try a make mrproper/make xconfig and see how it goes, first looking at everything but the hardware piece, save that as a start and then add the hardware. Thanks -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
