On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 13:34:07 +0000
Theodore Papamarkou <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everyone
> 
> I have followed the LFS book and installed LFS on my laptop. However, I have
> been trying several days now to boot it and I keep failing. 

At what point does booting fail? Does grub find and boot the kernel or
not? If the kernel boots, what does it say?

> 
> Kubuntu 10.10 is installed on /dev/sda1 and LFS on /dev/sda3.
> 
> I used GRUB 2 that is installed on /dev/sda1 (the one that ships with
> Kubuntu 10.10) to boot LFS. However, it did not work. So then, I rebooted
> and while in grub>, I gave the command
> 
> "
> ls (hd0,msdos3)/
> "
> 
> which printed out the following:
> 
> "
> lost+found sources sys
> "
> 
> This apparently means that /boot, as well as the rest of directories in
> /mnt/lfs, are not mounted. If I boot to Kubuntu and give
> 
> "
> ls /mnt/lfs
> "
> 
> I get
> 
> "
> bin  boot  dev  device.map  etc  home  lib  media  mnt  opt  proc  root
>  sbin  sources  srv  sys  tmp  usr  var
> "

Was /dev/sda3 mounted on /mnt/lfs when you tried that or is /mnt/lfs a
folder on /dev/sda1?

Andy
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