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 >> -- >> http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support >> FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html >> Unsubscribe: See the above information page >> > >
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