On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 16:30:36 -0400, Joel Miller wrote: > [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.
Linux can use it just fine, which is why you are installing LFS right now. Your bios didn't recognize the drives on startup. Fix that. The reason why I was talking about dev not being populated because that is a common problem. Make sure the BIOS is finding them as GRUB depends on it. Sincerely, William Harrington (Ratrophy) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
