Comment by shevy-java

Except that if you fail to install the bootloader - which happened to me many times - then you do not have a working system. So really the prior argument makes sense.

IMO the guy is right - LFS could be way better. But it has this current structure and does not deviate from it. That's the bad part.

> If you do things step by step incrementally, you keep having to go further back in the process. Starting over repeatedly gets tedious, boring and frustrating. And it'll take ages to finish the complete OS.

Pray tell how that is necessary for the bootloader? The chain used in LFS isn't the only one that makes sense or is required. IMO it would indeed be better to have a system you boot into as quickly as possible, on real hardware, then continue from there.