akhiezer <lfs65 <at> cruziero.com> writes:
> Yeah, the host that you're building on (what is it, and what version?) might
be
Host is SliTaz 4.0, a 32-bit distro that I'm booting over PXE when things go
south on the host machine, which is currently 100% of the time at the moment.
> calling your partitions /dev/hda.., but the lfs (what version is it you're
> building?) is likely calling them /dev/sda.. . So the /etc/fstab that you're
> creating for the lfs side of things, would need to use the 'dev/sda..' naming
> rather than the '/dev/hda..' naming.
I'll give that a shot. I am admittedly a little confused as to how "hda" and
"sda" are assigned. I know the difference, but I haven't traced the automagic
workings of these things well enough to know fully what's going on.
The host is a VM, and within the VM it is currently configured as an IDE drive,
so I think it *should* be hda. (dot is the number, using your notation). I
wrote
"sda" in the "linux ..." line because when I set the root param to "/dev/hda8"
the
machine would always fall into a kernel panic state at some point in the boot
process, complaining about not being able to load the root FS. Using
"/dev/sda8"
looked like it was able to load a few scripts before halting at what appears to
be a remount of the partition I designated as root.
>
> >From the host where you're building lfs, what does 'fdisk -l' show: does it
show
> /dev/hda.. or /dev/sda.. ?
SliTaz 4.0 reports /dev/hda.. I only have one virtual IDE HD configured for
the
machine.
>
> For the grub config for the lfs side, looks like you're OK wrt device naming:
i.e.
> use the form 'hd0' for the 'set root=(hd0,...)' line, and use the form
'/dev/sda..'
> for the 'linux /boot/vmlinu... /dev/sda.. ro' line that is contain within
> 'menuentry' sections.
Yeah, I figured as much, although I expected to see an actual menu item and a
timer
when I booted to GRUB. As it is, all I get is the grub command line, so I think
there might be another problem there. Admittedly, the LFS book doesn't seem to
mention what I should see when I reboot. If I'm supposed to see a menu, then I
didn't know, and perhaps the fact that I'm doing all this by the grub command
line
is symptomatic of a deeper problem with my build.
>
> 'vmlinux' -vs- 'vmlinuz': as another poster has noted, be clear which one of
> these you want to be referring to: from the host that you're using to build
lfs,
> what does '\ls -laF ${LFS}/boot' show? If you've got a 'vmlinux...' then use
that
> for grub; else use 'vmlinuz...' .
vmlinuz. I'm actually doing "vm<Tab>" each time I have to refer to the kernel,
so I don't think I'm incorrectly typing the kernel file. If there was a ref to
"vmlinux", I must have subconsciously corrected it by replacing the 'x' with a
'z' while going through my build, because I never noticed it.
>
> (( Yes, the kernel page 'chapter08/kernel.html' for lfs 7.3, 7.2, ... _does_
> talk about 'vmlinux...' in the section at the foot of the page; and
'vmlinuz...'
> elsewhere in the page and in the grub section.
> ))
>
> hth,
>
> akh
>
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