Well, I did it--sort of. After wrestling GRUB to the mat, I have succeeded in booting LFS 6.7 on my laptop that is already running Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.04. There is something very satisfying about that!
But there is a lingering issue. When the new kernel boots, after the swap partition is mounted (or as part of mounting it--I can't really be sure) I get a message saying the file system is mounted and if I continue "***SEVERE***" damage will occur. Of course I answer "no" and then a few more messages stream by and I get a login prompt that actually works. Before I go digging into the code, can someone tell me what that warning is all about, and what I might do to boot without getting it? In case the answer requires it, my partitions are as follows: /dev/sda1 Primary Windows XP NTFS /dev/sda2 Primary Shared FAT32 /dev/sda3 Extended /dev/sda5 Logical Ubuntu 10.04 ext3 /dev/sda6 Logical LFS 6.7 ext3 /dev/sda7 Logical swap Finally, even though the partitions are formatted ext3, for some reason grub-mkconfig insists on marking them as ext2 in grub.cfg. -- Daryl Lee -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
