Opened 17 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
#2093 closed task (fixed)
Add GRUB2 to handle multiple architectures
| Reported by: | Jeremy Huntwork | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 6.6 |
| Component: | Book | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description (last modified by )
Trunk can now build three different architectures (minus the kernel):
- x86
- x86_64 (64-bit only)
- powerpc
GRUB2 will handles all of the above.
Change History (12)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
comment:2 by , 16 years ago
Filesystems aren't the issue (especially now that grub has been patched). The point is that various architectures need various bootloaders. Also note that this ticket isn't specifically for trunk, but for the jh branch, an experimental book.
comment:3 by , 16 years ago
Bad news: http://bugs.debian.org/479607 (affects LILO loading big initramfs with linux-2.6.25). According to the Debian maintainer, this bug makes LILO unsuitable for inclusion into Debian. LFS should retest the bug and possibly take this into account.
comment:4 by , 16 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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| Version: | JH → SVN |
comment:5 by , 16 years ago
| Priority: | normal → highest |
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Marking this as highest priority because as the instructions currently stand, if someone tries to build for x86_64, grub will fail and there will be no working bootloader.
comment:8 by , 15 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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| Milestone: | 7.0 → 6.6 |
| Owner: | changed from to |
| Status: | new → assigned |
| Summary: | Add a new section for multiple boot loaders → Add GRUB2 to handle multiple architectures |
Promoting to 6.6 and changing the description.
comment:9 by , 15 years ago
| Priority: | highest → normal |
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The current grub-1.97-beta3 works well. When the final 1.97 version is released, use that to replace grub-0.97 in the book.
Lowering priority to normal.
comment:10 by , 15 years ago
Bruce, just a note that beta4 was released yesterday, in case you want to verify it works as well as beta3.
comment:11 by , 15 years ago
Grub 1.97 is out now. Release announcement at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-10/msg00373.html
Do we need for each possible bootloader to be compatible with every possible filesystem chosen by the user?
I mean... in the book we create an ext3 filesystem, and if we're gonna put some alternative bootloaders to grub, we could mention extlinux, from the syslinux package, supposedly works very well with ext2/3 filesystems (although I haven't tested it yet, but could be doing so)
So are we going to define a series of requisites or pre-requisites for bootloaders to be mentioned or the list can be wide in that sense?
Julio