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Hi:
I'm having two unexpected problems with LFS LiveCDs 6.2-3 and 6.2-4
that don't occure on lfslivecd-x86-6.1.1-4.iso. I've got a workaround
for the second problem but haven't found a solution yet for the second;
see 2. below.
1. The first is that I need to add a symbolic pointer from stage
to stage2 in the ${DISK}/boot/ directory when running grub-install.
The difference seems to be that the script is passing the wrong
arg in grub to the install command. The '2' is missing from the
the "(hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2" argument; Ex:
# grub-install --debug --root-directory=/recovery /dev/sda
+ case "$host_os" in
+ bootdir=/recovery/boot
+ grubdir=/recovery/boot/grub
+ device_map=/recovery/boot/grub/device.map
+ set /usr/sbin/grub dummy
.
.
.
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup --stage2=/recovery/boot/grub/stage2 --prefix=/boot/grub
(hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 15 sectors are
embedded.
succeeded
Running "install --stage2=/recovery/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1
(hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage
/boot/grub/menu.lst"...
succeeded ^
Done. |
grub> quit +----
HERE
2. The second is that once a kernel is running that it can't open
the root filesystem. It's not just a kernel problem, as even
kernels more recent than the 2.6.16 kernel (2.6.18 for example)
also fail to boot.
I made a static version of our mke2fs ran it on the lfslivecd-x86-6.2.3
and used it instead of the stock mke2fs and it didn't effect the
problem. I ran a static dumpe2fs and checked the magic number.
Seems the magic number hasn't changed.
I recall when migrating from 2.4 to 2.6 there being some bin-utils or
something that the kernel build process used to make the kerenl image.
I suspect that I need to update that in my build environmennt. If that's
it anyone know which package that is and where to get it from. I tried
kernel.org wonder if it's util-linux-2.12r.
-piet
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