Tor Olav Stava wrote:
Howard wrote:
I download the lfslivecd-x86-6.1.1-3.iso and burned it to a cd,
so it's on the cd by itself, alone , that's it. I thought that would
be all you need to do because I still can't see anything additionally
about burning a bootable live cd here. Like I said, I've never done
this before. So anyhow, did I burn the cd correctly? Thanks, Howard
If I understand correctly, you burned a normal data cd, with the file
lfslivecd-x86-6.1.1-3.iso on it? If so, that's why it won't start. You
need to burn it as an image file. Depending on the burning program you
use, there should be an entry in the menu to burn ISO or image files.
So that's what you do! OK! I see the option to create an iso image in
the old burner software!
So I took the cd and used that .iso to burn an "iso image" onto a new
blank.
(yes I have bios boot sequence floppy>cdrom>hd)
And so it now starts to boot! (notice I said "starts")
Actually it cruises along pretty well until it gets to "Starting
Init...." where it hangs.
leading up to that are these lines:
Mount tempfs
finds lfslivecd-x86-6.1.1-3.... (the iso cd label)
/dev/hdc : LFS Live CD Verified (/dev/hdc ? not /dev/cdrom? or is
it copied to hdc)
Setting up loopback device...
Mounting squashfs...
Mounting unionfs...
Starting init... (and......cut! that's as
far as we get)
So from the F1 boot options, I have tried :
linux expert
linux vga=789 (600x800 see the peguin text is nicer. I guess that's
graphical boot)
linux expert vga=789
All hang at the same point.
what is /dev/hdc ?
Anyhow, that's not working well but I can mount /dev/cdrom and see all
the nice source files there, including the linux-2.6.11.12.tar.bz2,
gcc-3.4.3.tar.bz2 and all the go-withs. Cool! well at least I've got
all that to work with and if nothing else , can be on the "right page"
for building tools.
I have run DSL live cd on here and it works like a charm.
So I don't think the machine is a problem, but what do I know.
(btw- an AMD k6-2, is/was AMD's answer for the Intel P-II)
So should I take this boot problem to the "live cd" mail list?
or forget it and just move on into the book.
And btw, you probably should set up a big swap partition when you're
building LFS, as especially GCC and Glibc require a substantially
amount of memory, and I don't think 128 MB would quite cut it. Try at
least the double amount of swap, but I would recommend 3-4 times the
size of your RAM.
Tor Olav
Holy Mackerel! 512mb?! geez, right now shm is 64mb.
I'm going to have to do some clearing! Goodbye gnome......(use fluxbox
anyhow)
I'll have to read up on the possibilty of changing exsisting partitions
without messing up my RH9 install. Especially if I can't get the live cd
working.
Thank you all very much for the quick help, I really appreciate it!
Howard
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