I downloaded the LFS ISO I used the LFS ISO as host as I no longer trust the Linux Distro I have installed and am set to dump it as soon as I can
Single drive Toshiba M40 Laptop with drive partitioned: HDA1 NTFS Windows Bootable HDA2 WIN95/VFAT Windows/Linux non Bootable storage HDA3 REISER Linux Bootable HDA4 REISER Linux non Bootable storage SWAP NONE - was advised of potential problems on laptop I installed LFS into /devhda4/LINUX_FROM_SCRATCH/ after making hda4 bootable No problems on the compiles and only a minor one switching from LILO to GRUB menu.lst is as follows: Begin /boot/grub/menu.lst # By default boot the first menu entry. default 0 # Allow 30 seconds before booting the default. timeout 30 # Use prettier colors. color green/black light-green/black # The first entry is for LFS. title LFS 6.2 LFS-DIR root (hd0,3) kernel /LINUX_FROM_SCRATCH/boot/lfskernel-2.6.16.35 root=/dev/hda4/LINUX_FROM_SCRATCH # Boot DOS title Win$hit rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 # Boot Linux title Slack root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=773 ro # Boot Memory Test title Memory Test root (hd0,2) kernel /memtest/memtest.bin # EOF LFS does not boot The other three choices do boot I have also moved - using 'cp' - all of the LINUX_FROM_SCRATCH directory into the root of hda4 to see if this would work This does not work either I modified 'menu.lst' to reflect the change in location I used fdisk to make hda4 bootable then made the LINUX_FROM_SCRATCH directory but since it was already formatted Reiser, I ignored the instructions to make the EXT2 filesystem Any advise on what I can try next please? Does LFS have to be on a partition that already has a working system on it? I had no problems with the actual compiling of the files -- Regards, Slackrat [Bill Henderson] [No _4Q_ for direct email] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
