hi, > 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 >
you have to mount and populate /dev . Check out Chpapter-6 from Mounting Kernel Filesystems and Populating /dev. with regards, C.C.Chakkaradeep -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
