So I finally got my LFS to boot....thanks Gerard, Hugh and Bruce for
giving suggestions on how to make it so....
I thought I would write out what I did to get it working so if other
newbies like myself come along and have the same problems they can
use the info to help...
I hope posting this the way I am keeps it in the thread...if admin
would like me to repost differently so it keeps in the thread please
let me know...
So first thing I started on was Gerards suggestions since I got his
message first and which was to check for IDE drivers, chipsets, and
filesystems through the menuconfig step in chapter 8.3.1 (LFS 6.4 book)
Of course while chrooted in lfs I could not use lspci to find out my
system information or cfdisk to verify my partition for lfs was the
ext3 I thought it was; I also noticed that you cannot echo things
like $LFS or $LC_ALL or $LANG to the moniter while chrooted, which I
don't think was important for getting the system to boot but when I
was entering the line in ch. 8.3.1 for menuconfig it says to use the
host $LANG value to replace - host_LANG_value -. I tried to find out
what that value was using echo just to make sure there was a value
there and found out echo doesn't work...so I just used
$LC_ALL hoping it would not turn out to be a factor in glitching the process.
So I logged out and through cfdisk found out that yes my partition
was ext3...and used lspci to find out that I had an IDE device and
ISA bridge device on the system and that my processor was a
Celeron(Coppermine)..
With that info I went through the process a few times of: the steps
of loading up the LFS live disk, export LFS=/mnt./lfs, mkdir $LFS,
mount /dev/hda2 $LFS, mounting and pop /dev (ch. 6.2.2), mounting
virtual kernel file systems (ch. 6.2.3) then straight to chapter 8.3.1.
I think once I forget to do the mrproper step before recompiling(if
that makes a difference I don't know);
Another time grub simply would not even recognize seeing any
partitions at all; the TAB technique would not work at all either...
Another time I forget to mark off my celeron(coppermined) in
config...although for booting it may not matter since it has generic
486 set off as default.
I also verfied my /etc/fstab settings too along the way
Once I tried the suggestion to change 'h' with 's' in grub but grub
wouldn't let me do that.
In the end, while in menuconfig, I think it was a few
sub-settings(that I did not do before) I tried under the Drivers -
ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL category that made the difference. I can't be more
specific in that regard since being booted in lfs now I can only look
at the config file with vim which lays out the information
differently and can't prompt my memory well enough.
One thing I would like to say for other newbies is that when you
enter that menuconfig part in section 8.3.1 each item in it has a
help tab that gives very useful information about that particular
setting. I Tabbed through all of the kernel options and read most of
those help files. They're
not large like Man files but still gives you good info to make
decisions on including an item or not. So having looked at what
hardware I have and using the help files I added some of these which
are not set to default( for the most part that my memory serves) with
kernel source:
Processor type and features;
CONFIG_MPENTIUNIII=y (for my celeron-coppermine)
CONFIG_X86_GENERIC=y
Bus options;
CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
CONFIG_PCNCIA=y
PC-card bridges;
CONFIG_I82365=y (this items help file had info that seemed related
to my ISA bridge listing from lspci)
Device Drivers - Generic Driver Options;
Protocols;
CONFIG_MISC_DEVICES=y
CONFIG_HAVE_IDE=y
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_IDE_TIMINGS=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFOG_IDE_PROC_FS=y
IDE chipset support/bugfixes
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_SFF=y
PCI IDE chipset support;
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513=y (SIS being the chipset maker and this
setting covering a number of chipsets by that manufacturer)
Other IDE chipsets support;
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
I also looked over filesystems for ext3 but found they are all set by
default so that was not the problem.
Thanks again guys for your help in finally getting this done!
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