Changeset 230381d

Timestamp:

05/16/2016 11:08:24 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

e5cd5e3

Parents:

72fb9bf

Message:

Editorial changes to the kernel section

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11062 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter08/kernel.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -40 +40 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Made editorial changes to the kernel section.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Moved Host System Requirements to Chapter 2
           and made minor editorial changes.</para>

chapter08/kernel.xml

@@ -109 +109 @@
     </variablelist>
 
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>make LANG=<replaceable>&lt;host_LANG_value&gt;</replaceable> LC_ALL= menuconfig</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>make menuconfig</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
-      <title>The meaning of the make parameters:</title>
+      <title>The meaning of optional make environment variables:</title>
 
       <varlistentry>
         <term><parameter>LANG=&lt;host_LANG_value&gt; LC_ALL=</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>This establishes the locale setting to the one used on the host.
-          This is needed for a proper menuconfig ncurses interface line
-          drawing on UTF-8 linux text console.</para>
-
-          <para>Be sure to replace <replaceable>&lt;host_LANG_value&gt;</replaceable>
-          by the value of the <envar>$LANG</envar> variable from your host.
-          If not set, you could use instead the host's value of <envar>$LC_ALL</envar>
+          <para>This establishes the locale setting to the one used on the
+          host.  This may be needed for a proper menuconfig ncurses interface
+          line drawing on a UTF-8 linux text console.</para>
+
+          <para>If used, be sure to replace
+          <replaceable>&lt;host_LANG_value&gt;</replaceable> by the value of
+          the <envar>$LANG</envar> variable from your host.  You can
+          alternatively use instead the host's value of <envar>$LC_ALL</envar>
           or <envar>$LC_CTYPE</envar>.</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -161 +162 @@
     required to complete the installation. Some files need to be copied to
     the <filename class="directory">/boot</filename> directory.</para>
+
+    <caution>
+      <para>If the host system has a separate /boot partition, the
+      files copied below should go there. The easiest way to do that 
+      is to bind /boot on the host to /mnt/lfs/boot before proceeding:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>mount --bind /boot /mnt/lfs/boot</userinput></screen>
+    </caution>
 
     <para>The path to the kernel image may vary depending on the platform being