Apologies for the typo; what I meant was that /mnt/lfs was a folder on
/dev/sda1 when I tried rebooting.

On 9 January 2011 13:59, Theodore Papamarkou <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you for the help
>
> GRUB 2 does not find the kernel. More generally, the /mnt/lfs/boot
> directory is not seen by GRUB 2.
>
> Also, /dev/sda3 was not mounted on /mnt/lfs when I tried that. /mnt/lfs
> a folder on /dev/sda1? The problem is that if I mount /dev/sda3 on /mnt/lfs,
> then for some reason I can not see any of the directories in /mnt/lfs from
> Kubuntu.
>
> What I just tried was to copy vmlinux-2.6.35.9-lfs-6.7 from /mnt/boot to
> /boot and then run update-grub on Kubuntu. This time the kernel was found
> and it tried to boot it, proceeded a bit and eventually failed as I was
> expecting to happen. The problem has to do with mounting /dev/sda3 on
> /mnt/lfs probably. More generally, I do not know whether I should touch
> /etc/fstab or /mnt/lfs/etc/fstab or both...
>
> On 9 January 2011 13:42, Andrew Benton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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