[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
<snip>
I just want to comment that two other people have replied to you saying
that you need to be sure that /dev is populated. I don't actually know
if that is the right answer or not, but I suspect that it isn't true. If
grub depended on /dev for tab completion, then how would it be able to
do it when you go into the grub console when your system is booting? I
think the answer lies somewhere else. Unfortunately, I don't know what
the answer is.
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