[Clfs-dev] Boot Method rather than chroot steps of the Cross-LFS book

[William Harrington]

Hello everybody,


Been working on the boot method of the book, but mostly with powerpc  
for now.

I've come across some issues we need to discuss.

When we boot, it is a very minimal system. Really, only the extra  
program installed is VIM.
We tell the user to build a minimal kernel to mount the rootfs and  
that is about it, and to not include audio and all that jazz. That is  
fine.

Although, I think the user may need network access. For example,  
maybe they want to build the system by running an openssh daemon in  
the booted temp system. That is fine. Since we install minimal boot  
scripts, the kernel can use ip autolevel configuration via dhcp,  
rarp, or some other method or the user can pass the kernel paramaters  
of the boot line to configure the network, and not even use  
bootscripts, don't need to install iproute2 in the temp system before  
booting. I think that may be the best way and we would not need to  
install ethernet configuration programs for the boot method.

Next up, we discourage the use of modules for the boot method, but if  
someone does and they decide to compress them for whatever reason,  
kmod will not load them as xz and zlib aren't enabled by default. We  
can enable those options for kmod during the boot method section and  
that will fix that. I know we want to keep the boot method minimal,  
and I want to know what the community has to say about the above  
issues I am raising.

Sincerely,

William Harrington