Changeset 7c1451f

Timestamp:

05/14/2024 04:34:00 AM (2 weeks ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

xry111/loongarch

Parents:

560c147

git-author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (05/13/2024 04:19:48 PM)

git-committer:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (05/14/2024 04:34:00 AM)

Message:

loongarch: grub: Update references to BLFS

Now BLFS documents how to install only the GRUB components missing in
LFS, take the advantage.

Also if efibootmgr is available, it's easier to just run grub-install
w/o the --removable option instead of manually input some nasty
efibootmgr commands.

(cherry picked from commit c6e4dbaee6d2e0c0801d48ed13f708e072de1ea5)

Files:

• chapter08/grub.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter10/grub.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter08/grub.xml

@@ -44 +44 @@
       <para>
         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.
+        But because LFS lacks the FreeType package and the Unifont data
+        file, GRUB won't install any font for the boot loader and
+        the GRUB boot menu will be displayed using a coarse font or in a
+        smaller region on the screen.
+        If wanted, after the LFS system is finished, install
+        <ulink url="&blfs-book;general/freetype.html">FreeType</ulink>
+        and then install the GRUB compoents not installed from LFS following
+        <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/grub-efi.html">the BLFS
+        instruction</ulink>, but remove the <option>--target=x86_64</option>
+        option and skip the command to install the
+        <filename class='directory'>/usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi</filename>
+        directory.
       </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 has UEFI support and you wish to boot LFS with UEFI,
-        you need to 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>.
-        You may skip this package, or install this package and the BLFS
-        GRUB for UEFI package without conflict (the BLFS page provides
-        instructions for both cases).
       </para>
     </note>

chapter10/grub.xml

@@ -20 +20 @@
     <para>
       This section assume your system has UEFI support and you wish to boot
-      LFS with UEFI and GRUB built following the instructions in Chapter 8.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-      If you've installed GRUB for UEFI with optional dependencies following
-      BLFS, you should skip the instructions in this page but still learn the
-      syntax of <filename>grub.cfg</filename> and the method to specify
-      a partition in the file from this page, and configure GRUB with UEFI
-      using the instructions provided in
-      <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/grub-setup.html">the BLFS page</ulink>,
-      but replace <parameter>--target=x86_64-efi</parameter> with
-      <parameter>--target=loongarch64-efi</parameter> for the 64-bit
-      LoongArch system.
-    </para>
-    <para>
+      LFS with UEFI.
       If your system does not support UEFI or you don't want to use it,
       you'll need to figure out how to configure the booting process of
@@ -178 +165 @@
         variable for the newly installed boot loader.  Install
         <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/efibootmgr.html">efibootmgr</ulink>,
-        then run the following commands:
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>mount -v -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
-efibootmgr -B -L LFS || true
-efibootmgr -c -L LFS -l '\EFI\BOOT\BOOTLOONGARCH64.EFI' -d /dev/sda
-umount /sys/firmware/efi/efivars</userinput></screen>
-
-        Replace <filename>/dev/sda</filename> with the device node of the
-        hard drive where you are installing GRUB into.
+        and follow
+        <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/grub-setup.html">the BLFS
+        instruction</ulink> to run the <command>grub-install</command>
+        command without the <parameter>--removable</parameter> option then.
       </para>
     </note>