Dan McGhee wrote: > > I got exuberant last night and presented the ability to boot without > GRUB2 slightly simplified. You are absolutely right in a program that > does the copy. I haven't researched the options yet, but I think it can > be as simple as a script. I think that the main technical issue is > passing boot options to the kernel.
I think that can be done by building them into the kernel, but that's not very convenient. > If all of this is going to somehow and sometime and someway go in "the > Book," I want to be able to speak from experience and not untried > knowledge. I ultimately want my laptop to default to the GRUB screen so > that I can choose an option. Yes, I know that if I hold down the ESC key > I'll be able to do that once I have things set up, but I'm getting lazy > in my old age. :) > > But, as an intermediate step, I could set up to boot this way. > Currently, I have some technical questions about GRUB2 build options and > grub-install options. I hesitate to experiment because I want to be able > to boot my computer. It's easy to back-up Ubuntu and LFS, but that other > bloated, leaky operating system is the problem. I don't even have a copy of that any more. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
