[email protected] wrote: > Virtual Box->Slackware 13.87 Host > > After I compile the entire system, forget Grub - it seems unreliable to > me - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't (using preexisting LILO in > Slackware - booting seems much smoother) But in either case, my LFS > boots to a READ ONLY file system.
Yes, it's supposed to do that. BTW, lilo is quite fragile. If a fsck changes the sectors, then you can't boot and there is no command line backup. It's also much harder to recover from typos. > I've read that one of the boot scripts (which all installed ok to my > knowledge) is supposed to do a fsck on the partition then unmount the > drive and remount it read/write. /etc/init.d/checkfs /etc/init.d/mountfs > Further, I expected to see a bunch od devices in the /dev folder and all > I have is console and null. That's populated by udev: /etc/init.d/udev. If it doesn't work, then you probably have a configuration issue. > Also, the fstab has <yyy> or something versus /dev/sda3 or something > too. Same with the swap setting. Yes, you are supposed to set that to the value on your system. We can't guess what you are going to use. > I'm a bit perplexed over this matter too. I'm wondering how my > symlink in 4.2 caused my perl commands needing changing too. > something is awry and I'm not sure what. I won't give up! You didn't set the permissions properly or you are building as the wrong user. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
