On 9/5/07, support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Dan - > > > Before adding debugging to the functions, try booting to single user > > mode (level 1). Just add 1 to the kernel command line in grub. This > > should (hopefully) get you to a shell. > > That was pretty much all I needed right there - basically, someone to remind > me to slow the heck down and look at the simplest solution, first... > > I had made one typo in fstab (s/defaults/default/), the result of which was > that the partition with /var on it was staying mounted read-only. After I > booted up like you suggested (that works exactly as stated, BTW) it didn't > take too long to figure that one out. Then: > > mount -n -o remount,rw /dev/xxxx /var
Well, one thing I changed in between 6.3-rc2 and the final release is that the fsck in the checkfs script no longer throws away stderr. I'd had no-boot errors twice because of typos in fstab which were silent because of that. Booting still failed, but at least I got to see the error being thrown by fsck. Here's the change: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/changeset/8315 Does that make a difference in your case? > I used rc2 of the 6.3 version of the book; looks like a number of things > changed between then and "release level"... For one, I noticed that > ifconfig was on the live CD (rc2 is still using "ip" to do everything). > While I don't mind "ip", I'm tempted to use ifconfig from the standpoint of > consistency... Not too much changed between rc2 and the final edition, but you may be interested in grabbing the final bootscripts and udev-config tarballs. BTW, what you see on the LiveCD is LFS + lots of extras determined by the LiveCD team. If you prefer ifconfig, you can always build net-tools from BLFS. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/basicnet/net-tools.html The builtin network services will still use ip, but you can use ifconfig interactively or whatever. I think most people keep ifconfig around for comfort's sake. I do, although I'm starting to get used to the ip usage. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
