On Nov 18, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: > I'm still going to try to find a way to use GRUB2 in this. But, I > haven't done any building for my LFS system in almost a month and I > want > to get back to it. I'm going to let this grub stuff grow penicillin > in > my brain for awhile and then try again.
Grub2 has made a lot of things very complicated, but the project is also not only working with the i386 platform, it is also working on multiple targets with multiple platforms. arc, coreboot, efi, emu, ieee1275, loongson, multiboot, qemu, qemu- mips, pc: for which target regarding i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, sparc64, and x86_64 You may want to give syslinux a go as it may have a healthier efi state. For syslinux you will need the syslinux source, gnu-efi source, and nasm source. I have a guide I updated, but I think it still needs work. I may have got some commands backwards. http://trac.cross-lfs.org/wiki/bootloaders/syslinux Such as IA64 and IA32 going with syslinux and not gnu-efi. I referred to the archlinux wiki for syslinux. I found it a huge pain to even setup grub2 for a serial console to boot. WIth syslinux, was quite simple. It may be the same way with efi and uefi. GRUB2 is okay, but it isn't that great. There are still plenty of headaches out there with it. Although, I am glad it was working partially with sparc64 systems. SIncerely, William Harrington -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
