Thank you all. I shall now go away and try all of the suggestions until I hit the EUREKA spot.
I will come back to you with a report of my adventures under the thread heading. martin welsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Send lfs-support mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of lfs-support digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Failure to boot (Thomas Trepl) > 2. Mirror mount of /dev (lanas) > 3. Re: lfs-support Digest, Vol 1394, Issue 1 (martin welsh) > 4. Re: Failure to boot (was Re: lfs-support Digest, Vol 1394, > Issue 1) (Wit) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:00:02 +0100 > From: Thomas Trepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Failure to boot > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Martin, > > Am Freitag, 8. Februar 2008 20:52:05 schrieb martin: > >> # 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 6.3 >> root (hd0,6) >> kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.22.5 root=/dev/sda7 >> > Looks fine. Assuming you do not have /boot on another small partition which > is > often used to hide the kernel et.al. from the rest of the system > > >> The LFS system is located in /mnt/lfs which is situated on/dev/sda7. >> > Sure you have mounted this while building the new LFS? (Happened to me once > a > while ago... I made great eyes when i saw that all of my builds > has "disappeared" from the partition but were fine on the root system...) > > >> The following text is displayed when loading comes to a halt. >> >> "....... >> Root - NFS: No NFS server available , giving up. >> VFS: unable to mount root fs via NFS trying floppy >> VFS: insert root floppy and press enter >> > This is what seems to be very strange. Sounds like the kernel tries to use > NFS (Network File System). No idea where that can come from. Are you sure > that the used filesystem is compiled in into your kernel? > > >> ...." >> > > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
