Baho Utot wrote:
> I have finished my LFS-7.0 build and I have successfully booted it aafter
> solving some problems.
>
>
> The symlink /bin/sh to /bin/bash was missing. I am looking into why that
> happened, but I see in the chapter06 in the bash section that the link is not
> created by hand. I believe it should have beeen created by the package
> installation but it was not. I have made this link by hand to fix this
> particular problem.
It's done in Section 6.6 - Creating Essential Files and Symlinks
> I have the following two issues to correct:
>
> When it now boots there is a line that states:
> mount: mount point /dev/pts does not exist
> This appears in the boot sequence
>
> What is responseable for /dev/pts and why might it be missing?
It is mounted as
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=4,mode=620 0 0
I suspect that /dev/pts should be created by udev, you might want to
comment that out of fstab to see if it is created and then try to mount
manually. That's not a final solution, but it might give you some clues.
The most likely problem is a kernel configuration issue. I don't know
what it would be, but it's not CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES. I
don't have that set either. What I do have set in that area is:
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
> The other issue I have is with grub2. Upon trying to install it to the mbr
> using grub-install /dev/sda it puked saying that the core.img file was too
> big, hereby trashing the grub-legacy boot loader leaving the system
> unbootable. I will need to look into what/why/when the cause of the core.img
> file being too big.
How big is /boot/core.img? It probably needs to be less than 31K.
/usr/sbin/grub-install is a script. It's running
"$grub_mkimage" ${config_opt} -d "${pkglibdir}" -O ${mkimage_target}
--output="${grubdir}/core.${imgext}"
--prefix="${prefix_drive}${relative_grubdir}" $modules
Have the script print out what it thinks the variables are. If there
are too many $modules, then that needs to be reduced.
You might also want to rebuild grub and make sure it finds xz. There
have been some issues with that lately.
-- Bruce
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