Changes in chapter08/grub.xml [3608d06a:133b5cc]

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chapter08/grub.xml

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     <note>
       <para>
-        If your system has UEFI support and you wish to boot LFS with UEFI,
-        you can skip this package in LFS,
-        and install GRUB with UEFI support (and its dependencies) by following
-        the instructions on
-        <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/grub-efi.html">the BLFS page</ulink>.
+        On LoongArch systems, the following instruction builds GRUB for UEFI.
+        But the built GRUB lacks some features because a few optional
+        dependencies of GRUB for UEFI is beyond the scope of LFS and not
+        installed yet.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        If your system firmware does not support UEFI, you need to skip the
+        content of this page and try to figure out how to boot your system.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        If your system firmware supports UEFI and you want a fully
+        functional GRUB, you can skip the content of this page,
+        and install GRUB with UEFI support (and its dependencies) following
+        <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/grub-efi.html">the BLFS page</ulink>
+        (with <parameter>--target=x86_64</parameter> removed) at the end of
+        this chapter.
       </para>
     </note>
@@ -61 +72 @@
       aggressive optimization.</para>
     </warning>
-
-    <para>
-      Fix an issue causing <command>grub-install</command> to fail when the
-      <filename class='directory'>/boot</filename> partition (or the root
-      partition if <filename class='directory'>/boot</filename> is not a
-      separate partition) is created by e2fsprogs-1.47.0 or later:
-    </para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap='pre'>patch -Np1 -i ../grub-&grub-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Prepare GRUB for compilation:</para>