Jason P Sage wrote: > 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.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/grub.html 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?). Did you redo the virtual mounts in http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/kernfs.html before reentering chroot? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
