By the way, I suggest moving the grub and lilo related posts to a new thread.
Good idea. Libervisco could you be so kind and split these post as something like "EasyLFS Bootloader" or something like that.
tbuitenh wrote:
Yes, installing grub later would work, as long as lilo is installed to the partition rather than the disk MBR.
Well, it's installed to the MBR since that's the way I always used it. Also this comes in handy with the new features regarding booting from LVM/RAID/encrypted partitions.
tbuitenh wrote:
Lilo consists of only a few files so even removing it should be no problem if I should want to do so.
And even if you don't remove it it shouldn't really hurt since all these files don't have really much weight.
tbuitenh wrote:
Converting linux device names to grub device names is not too difficult, the scheme below should work but please check with someone who has a sd rather than a hd:
/dev/AdB -- (XdY)
/dev/AdBC -- (XdY,Z)
with
if A == f:
X = f
Y = B
Z = undefined
else if A in {h, s}:
X = h
Y = B - a (a -- 0, b -- 1, c -- 2 etc)
Z = C - 1 (1 -- 0, 2 -- 1, 3 -- 2 etc)
endif
I have no clue what happens when one has both a hda and a sda.
I'll have to have a look into this.
I think the HD on my notebook is sda, and since Fedora uses Grub I'll check what it's called in the config.
It installs LiLo to the MBR, so to for example /dev/hda rather than /dev/hda1 ? For a pathological multibooter like me, that's bad. Please at least include an option not to install LiLo, I could boot EasyLFS by adding it to the grub menu of one of the other Linuxes and give it it's own grub after that.
Having it this way has a nice side-effect, I can build the system for the LiveCD without PAM, which enables me to keep having no root-password on the LiveCD. With PAM I'd either have to set a password (which I wouldn't want) or enable null-passwords in the PAM-config (what I also don't want because PAM is supposed to increase security).
By the way, I suggest moving the grub and lilo related posts to a new thread.
Good idea. Libervisco could you be so kind and split these post as something like "EasyLFS Bootloader" or something like that.
Yes, installing grub later would work, as long as lilo is installed to the partition rather than the disk MBR.
Well, it's installed to the MBR since that's the way I always used it. Also this comes in handy with the new features regarding booting from LVM/RAID/encrypted partitions.
Lilo consists of only a few files so even removing it should be no problem if I should want to do so.
And even if you don't remove it it shouldn't really hurt since all these files don't have really much weight.
Converting linux device names to grub device names is not too difficult, the scheme below should work but please check with someone who has a sd rather than a hd:
/dev/AdB -- (XdY)
/dev/AdBC -- (XdY,Z)
with
if A == f:
X = f
Y = B
Z = undefined
else if A in {h, s}:
X = h
Y = B - a (a -- 0, b -- 1, c -- 2 etc)
Z = C - 1 (1 -- 0, 2 -- 1, 3 -- 2 etc)
endif
I have no clue what happens when one has both a hda and a sda.
I'll have to have a look into this.
I think the HD on my notebook is sda, and since Fedora uses Grub I'll check what it's called in the config.
It installs LiLo to the MBR, so to for example /dev/hda rather than /dev/hda1 ? For a pathological multibooter like me, that's bad. Please at least include an option not to install LiLo, I could boot EasyLFS by adding it to the grub menu of one of the other Linuxes and give it it's own grub after that.
I'm not sure if you received my PM, but feel free to send me the link to the latest beta of EasyLFS because I can download and test it.
Cheers
Having it this way has a nice side-effect, I can build the system for the LiveCD without PAM, which enables me to keep having no root-password on the LiveCD. With PAM I'd either have to set a password (which I wouldn't want) or enable null-passwords in the PAM-config (what I also don't want because PAM is supposed to increase security).