Changeset c75f261 for chapter10

Timestamp:

02/28/2024 04:02:53 PM (5 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

xry111/mips64el

Children:

959783e

Parents:

444bc9c

git-author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (02/03/2024 02:39:26 PM)

git-committer:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (02/28/2024 04:02:53 PM)

Message:

mips64el: remove grub and add a note about bootloader

There are many MIPS boards and grub only supports three kind of them:
arc, loongson, qemu. And for loongson and qemu, grub requires
freetype2. Just remove it in the mips64el branch.

Location:

chapter10

Files:

• chapter10.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• grub.xml (deleted)
• kernel.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter10/chapter10.xml

@@ -15 +15 @@
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="fstab.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="kernel.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="grub.xml"/>
 
 </chapter>

chapter10/kernel.xml

@@ -376 +376 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="install">cp -iv .config /boot/config-&linux-version;</userinput></screen>
 
+    <important>
+      <para>At this point, you should install and/or configure your
+      bootloader to boot the LFS system with the kernel just installed.
+      The firmware interface of MIPS systems is not standardized so the
+      detailed process will be board-specific.  You can reuse the bootloader
+      from your host distro if possible.</para>
+    </important>
+
     <para>Install the documentation for the Linux kernel:</para>