On 06/10/2015 11:11, Richard Melville wrote:
On 6 October 2015 at 08:15, Hazel Russman <hazeldeb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
And what happens when a package manager in another system wants to update GRUB?
Apt does this rather frequently. Do you mount your common boot partition on the
other system's /boot and let apt replace the grub.cfg file that you hand-wrote
for LFS?
I have Mint and LFS on a laptop with grub, and right now I'm doing all the grub
work in Mint, but it's not a solution I like very much. Which is why on my main
computer I use lilo, not grub.
Another option: have you tried "sudo apt-mark hold package_name" which
will lock a package and stop it being upgraded by apt? You can later,
if you wish, remove the "hold" using the same command but substituting
"hold" with "unhold".
Richard
It does not work for Hazel's case, because a lot of package updates
trigger GRUB updating, and you can't hold all of them.
There are several solutions, none is really satisfactory:
- edit the files in /etc/grub.d, so that the LFS part is not overwritten
by grub-mkconfig.
- backup grub.cfg, and merge it with the newly generated one after updates.
- let Debian find the LFS partitions and create entries for it. That
sometimes generate a lot of rubbish. I have only 2 partitions, one with
debain and the other with LFS, and it works for me, except that the LFS
initrd is ignored.
Pierre
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