System: Win7Home -> Oracle VirtualBox -> Slackware 13 (32bit) as My Host
Background: So far I've managed to get through the entire book with some sort of momentum which now has come to a screeching halt. I'm sure there is something wrong being done on my part but to make a long story short: The grub Device Check in the book returns an empty text file (device.map) like it doesn't see my drives, and the grub-install fails miserably as well. The book seems to have skipped the ./configure, make and make install steps entirely for grub. Perhaps this is because there aren't any special parameters or pre or post compiling scripts that need to be run. This simple omission left me puzzled I must say because the rest of the book has been very explicit. So far as I can tell... I'm missing something crucial. Steps: i: Chroot into LFS build environment $LFS A: I untar grub-1.99 into the $LFS/sources folder. B: run ./configure , make, make install C: run grub-mkdevicemap --device-map=device.map (empty file results) D: run grub-install /dev/sdb (disk 2 - waiting for Bootloader - planning to remove drive 1 after) Grub Install returns: /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub (is /dev mounted?). I think chroot is the issue, so I open a new "Konsole" that is not chrooted, no grub, so I add the binaries to the path $LFS/usr/sbin And still no luck: it complains that it can't find grub-module and grub-setup but these are in the same /usr/sbin I've fought this for hours now - maybe 3 hours so far.. Any help at all would be appreciated. Happy Holidays --Jason P Sage -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
