Thanks for ur reply... As per the earlier mail of Pavlov (PV) the output i got is listed below....
1) ls -l /bin/bash /lib/libreadline.so.5.0 /lib/libhistory.so.5.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1152240 2006-08-11 04:43 /bin/bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30852 2006-08-07 05:05 /lib/libhistory.so.5.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 206725 2006-08-07 05:05 /lib/libreadline.so.5.0 2)ls -l /lib/libncurses.so.5 /lib/libdl.so.2 /lib/libc.so.6 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1152240 2006-08-11 04:43 /bin/bash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2006-07-23 21:41 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.4.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2006-07-23 21:41 /lib/libdl.so.2 -> libdl-2.3.4.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2006-08-06 03:59 /lib/libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.4 3)ls -l /lib/ld-linux.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2006-07-23 21:41 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.3.4.so 4)ls -ld / /bin /: total 88 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-08-11 04:43 bin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-08-07 06:24 boot drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 300 2006-08-31 03:51 dev drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 2006-08-31 03:52 etc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-07-22 04:05 home drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2006-08-07 06:22 lib drwx------ 3 root root 16384 2006-07-17 23:54 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2006-08-31 04:04 media drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-07-22 04:05 mnt drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2006-07-22 04:16 opt dr-xr-xr-x 40 root root 0 2006-08-31 03:36 proc drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 2006-08-25 04:32 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-08-07 05:06 sbin drwxrwxrwt 60 1001 root 4096 2006-08-11 04:28 sources drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-07-22 04:06 srv drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 2006-08-31 03:36 sys drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 12288 2006-08-11 04:43 tmp drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2006-07-23 05:59 tools drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2006-07-25 03:54 usr drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 2006-07-22 04:15 var /bin: total 3360 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29103 2006-08-07 05:05 [ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2996 2006-08-07 05:05 arch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16939 2006-08-07 05:05 basename -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1152240 2006-08-11 04:43 bash -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6823 2006-08-11 04:43 bashbug lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2006-08-06 19:27 bunzip2 -> bzip2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2006-08-06 19:27 bzcat -> bzip2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34915 2006-08-07 05:05 bzip2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21217 2006-08-07 05:05 cat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38353 2006-08-07 05:05 chgrp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38071 2006-08-07 05:05 chmod -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 41038 2006-08-07 05:05 chown lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-08-07 03:26 compress -> gzip -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 57543 2006-08-07 05:05 cp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46777 2006-08-07 05:05 date -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35280 2006-08-07 05:05 dd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38522 2006-08-07 05:05 df -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4520 2006-08-07 05:05 dmesg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18537 2006-08-07 05:05 echo -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33 2006-08-07 03:17 egrep -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15685 2006-08-07 05:05 false -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33 2006-08-07 03:17 fgrep -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23351 2006-08-07 05:05 fuser -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 83722 2006-08-07 05:05 grep lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-08-07 03:25 gunzip -> gzip -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 60381 2006-08-07 05:05 gzip -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31076 2006-08-07 05:05 head -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17063 2006-08-07 05:05 hostname -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 59268 2006-08-07 05:05 install -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 12232 2006-08-07 05:05 kill -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16500 2006-08-07 05:05 killall -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 119242 2006-08-07 05:05 less -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7358 2006-08-07 05:05 lessecho -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13681 2006-08-07 05:05 lesskey -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29317 2006-08-07 05:05 ln -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 75416 2006-08-07 05:05 loadkeys -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7904 2006-08-07 05:05 logger -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43770 2006-08-07 05:05 login -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 83395 2006-08-07 05:05 ls -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8325 2006-08-07 05:05 lsmod -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26419 2006-08-07 05:05 mkdir -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24143 2006-08-07 05:05 mknod -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26724 2006-08-07 05:05 more -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 56480 2006-08-07 05:05 mount -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4816 2006-08-07 05:05 mountpoint -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 62971 2006-08-07 05:05 mv -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 25954 2006-08-07 05:05 passwd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-08-07 04:32 pidof -> ../sbin/killall5 -rwsrwxr-x 1 root root 26463 2006-08-07 05:05 ping -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 65104 2006-08-07 05:05 ps -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17984 2006-08-07 05:05 pwd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38252 2006-08-07 05:05 rm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18766 2006-08-07 05:05 rmdir -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 107134 2006-08-07 05:05 sed lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-07-23 19:24 sh -> bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19010 2006-08-07 05:05 sleep -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42867 2006-08-07 05:05 stty -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 30278 2006-08-07 05:05 su -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16452 2006-08-07 05:05 sync -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 223461 2006-08-07 05:05 tar -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27389 2006-08-07 05:05 test -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33982 2006-08-07 05:05 touch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15685 2006-08-07 05:05 true -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 29972 2006-08-07 05:05 umount -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18714 2006-08-07 05:05 uname lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2006-08-07 03:26 uncompress -> gunzip lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-08-07 03:26 zcat -> gzip And i forgot to say , When i get into my LFS linux thro grub, after the kernel uncompressing and all..... the script - ................................. [ok] ............................. [ok] Mounting the remaning file systems [failed] ......................... [ok] i could not make guess , whether anything has gone wrong.... can anybody help me out solving this issue .... -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page