>> I just grabbed the grub source on another (slackware) machine here
>> and I ran ./bootstrap and it grabbed gnulib and carried on.

> Excellent.  You had me worried there for a second.

Yes, next time I'll know better.. ;)

>> It found a lot of dependecies on that machine and took quite a
>> while to run compared to building in the lfs chroot.

> Yes but you only have to run ./bootstrap the first time.  You could make a
> tarball from the resulting source after running ./bootstrap and thus save
> yourself building time on other targets or future from scratch builds.

That was my plan, just tar.gz it up and put it in the /mnt/lfs/sources directory and carry on.

Sometimes I inspire myself to do better.

>> One day I am going to see if I can get the starfield theme working.

> Is that a planetarium type thingy?

I think I have seen it years ago but I don't quite remember now. It just displays an image on the screen and puts the grub menu on top of it.

Totally unimportant but a nice touch.

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