I successfully installed LFS from the book (Version 6.3) onto an old Laptop (Dell Latitude CPt C333GT)
I had a few problems post instillation with power down of the Laptop and with an Orinoco Wifi PCMCIA card. In attempt to sort out the powerdown problem I was trying different combinations of APM and ACPI (As per FAQ) in "make menuconfig" but nothing seemed to work. I then got to thinking. I installed LFS from the LFS live CD which did not have a problem with either powerdown or the Wifi card so I decided why not use the ".config" file from the Live CD. When I copied the .config file from /usr/src/linux into my system I ran make menuconfig and got an entirely new set of options in the configuration which I don't understand, but no matter. My problem has been that the when I build with the config file from the Live CD the Kernel won't build due to a kernel panic. It's unable to mount the root partition. That was fine the first time I encountered it as I'd forgotten to change the file system settings. I went back and changed the ext3 file system driver from being a Module to being fully integrated into the kernel but to no avail. I've searched through things on the web but I'm at a lost which is why I've ended up here. Has anybody got any advice that they can give to me. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
