This is my first LFS system.  I have completed most of the 6.0 LFS book but 
have hit a brick wall in section 8.4.  I am only a beginner-intermediate Linux 
user so I will describe what I have done in as much detail as I can (sorry if 
it's not relevant).

I currently have windows xp, but I want to dual boot with LFS.  I partitioned 
my SATA hard drive (using partition magic) into 3 partitions:  windows (sda1), 
LFS (sda5), and swap (sda6).  I am using Knoppix 3.7 to build the LFS system.  
Everything went relatively smoothly until I reached section 8.4.  I ran the 
grub shell and tried 
root (           followed by a TAB but grub just displayed 
root ( 
without any other completions.  I tried 
root(hd0, + TAB
root(hd1, + TAB
...
root(hd7, + TAB
and it always returned the same error message:
Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

Beyond hd7 grub returned 
root(hd8, + TAB
Error 12: Invalid device requested

I ran grub in Knoppix and it behaved in exactly the same way.  I looked up the 
grub documentation and it is not supposed to distinguish SCSI drives from IDE 
drives.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

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