Changeset a626665d

Timestamp:

02/26/2022 04:01:40 PM (11 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

xry111/clfs-ng

Children:

a5da281

Parents:

f8f349e

git-author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (02/26/2022 03:58:56 PM)

git-committer:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (02/26/2022 04:01:40 PM)

Message:

cross-ng: final documentation change before pushing

Files:

• chapter07/introduction.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• prologue/cross.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter07/introduction.xml

@@ -10 +10 @@
 
   <title>Introduction</title>
+
+  <warning>
+    <para>Please make sure the temporary system is already booted on the
+    target machine.  All commands in this chapter and the following chapters
+    should be executed on the target machine instead of the host distro,
+    unless the book explicitly says a command is for the host.  Running a
+    command for the temporary system on the host can completely destroy the
+    host distro.</para>
+  </warning>
 
   <para>This chapter shows how to build the last missing bits of the temporary

prologue/cross.xml

@@ -53 +53 @@
     building and test packages at the start of Chapter 7.  Then this Cross
     Edition is created to demonstrate these steps.</para>
+
+    <para>Unlike the legacy CLFS project, in the Cross Edition we don't
+    build any package containing an <command>init</command> process for the
+    temporary system to boot on the target machine.  The temporary system
+    is booted with a shell running as PID 1, and some necessary jobs of a
+    normal <command>init</command> process are manually done with commands.
+    This minimizes the difference from the main LFS book, and also helpful
+    to learn the initialization steps booting a Linux system.</para>
   </sect2>