Ellis Wilson wrote:
Almost to my own distro, but ran into a problem on the last page (of course) of instructions trying to make grub setup my hd0. I've got 4 partitions on a 160gb hd, 1 being M$ (unfortunately) 2 being ext3 (LFS), 3 being a storage fat32 partition and 4 being my swap. Now upon trying to root (hd0,1) it says "Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x6" and upon going anyhow and trying setup (hd0) I get "Error 17: Cannot mount partition". My host is the LFS LiveCD. All help is appreciated.
I have not yet mastered Grub myself, but the error message looks very suspiciously like your LFS partition has the wrong type ID in the partition table. If I interpret that number correctly, type 0x6 is FAT16 whereas an ext3 filesystem should have type 0x83. You can change this using the 't' command in util-linux's fdisk. Brandon -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
