*Re-recording* LFS on an Intel i486 Episode 198 - Live recording of boot up
Channel: Kernotex
Date: 27/04/2020

I've re-recorded the live boot of LFS 8.4 on and Intel 80486 so that the screen is easier to read.

This is the final video for this project showing a screen recording of the 486 booting up the newly built LFS 8.4. You'll notice that it is not booting from GRUB2. There are two reasons for this:

1. On the machine I was building on I don't want to alter the MBR of the first disk, even though GRUB is quite capable of booting other OS's.
2. The BIOS on the motherboard only recognises a single IDE channel; the disk that I was compiling on is the master disk on the second channel (/dev/sdc), so the BIOS cannot see that disk.

Therefore I use a Legacy GRUB (version 0.97) boot floppy where as you see, I type in the relevant commands into the GRUB prompt to boot up LFS 8.4 on the i486. The kernel is installed on the FAT partition on /dev/sdb so I am able to start that kernel image from legacy GRUB. Once that is running the BIOS is effectively redundant and the root filesystem can be seen by the kernel and everything works normally from then on.

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyc5xVO2uDsA71FY3rZRw6N0dsz7Q-kRk\