Hello,
I completed the final build and went through the section 12.4 making
LFS bootable but I can't get my new LFS to boot. I think I may be
running into an issue caused by the way I built the LFS and the hardware
I'm using but I can't figure out what to do next. I built my own system
from an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard and an AMD 64 Athlon X2 4800+
CPU. The MB has two SATA2 RAID controllers on board. A Silicone Image 2
port that will do RAID 1 and a 4 port NVIDIA that will do RAID 5. I
decided to put the LFS on the 2 port with mirrored disks and use the
NVIDIA for data. One of the two ports on the Silicone Image controller
is an external SATA-E which I don't have a cable for yet, so I decided
to load some distribution on the disk connected to the NVIDIA controller
and build LFS on the one connected to the SI controller. Well, I
couldn't find a way to boot the system from the NVIDIA controller so I
installed FC5 on the SI and built the LFS on the nV with the intention
of swaping the disks and booting the LFS from the SI once it was built.
I have checked and re-checked the conf file and gone through the section
12.4 a number of times and keep getting an error that says it can't find
a "boot signature on that partition". It's been a long time since I have
used LILO but I have read about the loading in multiple stages and
printing LILO on the screen but I never get as far as seeing an "L". I
am working from "SVN-20060516" building a pure 64. Has anyone ever seen
this message about a boot signature? At first I thought it was that I
hadn't marked the boot partition active but that is not the case. BTW,
the partition table looks like this. Partition 1 is the home of the LFS
kernel I am trying to boot.
Disk /dev/sdb: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 14 379 2939895 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 380 1596 9775552+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 1597 10011 67593487+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 1597 2083 3911796 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 2084 2692 4891761 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 2693 3058 2939863+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8 3059 10011 55849941 83 Linux
Any body have any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'd like
to start building X and other things on my new OS.
Arnie
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