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It boots. I set up the network with dhcp using the same renaming trick as on the usb, and I'm using links to write this. For some reason it took a little while for name resolution to get going.
I notice you have a Crux-type updating system with the "core" repo set to the LFS packages. Presumably additional packages could be downloaded via the BLFS book. What about the Pkgfile scripts? Would they have to be written by the user, based on the book?
As stated in the OP, yes it does use pkgutils from CRUX. Right now i only wrote Pkgfile for core system.
For other Pkgfiles, its depends on user if they want take control of packages installed in the system they can write Pkgfile on their own, or if they want just follow LFS, packages installed without package manager.
If i got time i will write extra Pkgfiles for BLFS so user can easily install packages into their LFS system even get control of dependencies.
OK, so I did the install about half an hour ago. No more boot problems. I don't know what was causing those before but it was definitely a uefi problem, nothing to do with the image.
Installation went smoothly, except for grub, which I left out. I don't want grub on my system. I'll add the new system to refind later so that I can boot it.
The instructions seem fine, though of course they assume a certain amount of knowledge. I've seen quite a few posters here and on the LFS mailling list who would have needed more guidance.
One thing that might need attention is some error messages I got while building the initramfs, concerning missing firmware:
Code:
WARNING Missing firmware for wd919x:wd719x-risc.bin
WARNING Missing firmware for wd919x:wd719x-wcs.bin
WARNING Missing firmware for aic94xx:aic-94xx-seq.fx
All wifi, I think, so of no concern to me, but there might be problems on some laptops.
Otherwise fine.
Those missing firmware warning is safe to ignore.
I keep instruction simple just to get LFS-system installed. I will try expand more about instruction as long its about LFS.
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