I have a quick question about Linux from Scratch - Can one go through the process on a machine with no OS and a prepared thumb drive? I have a spare laptop right here… (or even an image on Ventoy)

  • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    This. It sounds like OP is trying to bootstrap the low-level system. On startup the CPU is instructed to read from the first 512 bytes from the designated hard drive if it’s MBR and run it as native code. If OP has any mean (like a butterfly) to write his own invention of boot code and Grub equivalent then it totally goes off the ground there.