Hi, Richard, you wrote:
> Subject: Re: Final step 9.3 then no reboot

> Allen J. Newton wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have tried to build LFS 6.1 three times with no success.  All three 
> > attempts
> > have failed at the same point, so I'm wondering what I'm missing?
> 
> > Any other ideas of things I might try to get it to work?
> >
> 
> It's most likely that this is a kernel config problem, or just possibly
> you have wierd isa or pci hardware.

Well, the VMware virtual machine doesn't have anything weird in it, just a
(virtual) NIC, hard drive, floppy, CDROM and memory.  The AMD machine also has
a Hauppauge Win-TV card in it, but I'm not specifically trying to include it
(I'll tackle that after I just get it booting).

> Don't start another LFS build until
> you are through this step, you'll just waste your time.

Agreed!

> What did you change from the default kernel configuration after mrproper
> (in the 'make menuconfig' step)?

Well, the first time I went through and just added what seemed to make sense.

When that didn't seem to work, the 2nd time I took the /boot/config-xxxx from
a Fedora Core 4 machine, did a "make oldconfig" saying "N" to everything new
in it, then did a "make menuconfig" and removed things I knew I didn't have.

Also, I had it build without modules, everything in the kernel.

> Try booting the liveCD and note all
> the hardware detected in the dmesg|less output - try and find these
> items in the kernel config and look at the help for each one. You say it
> hangs in the isapnp stage, this is where to start.  What have you got on
> the isa and pci buses?  Did you configure them as 'built in' or as
> modules - if modules did you remember to do 'make modules~_install', and
> did the modules you'd expect get installed?

Given that the isapnp diagnostics print, I'm guessing it's whatever comes
right after that, but I suppose it could be that, too.

Would you do me a favor and (privately) email me a known good .config file?
The common thing does seem to be me taking a blind stab at configuring the
kernel.  Thanks.

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Allen J. Newton  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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