On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 05:10:03PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > On 08/16/2014 06:49 AM, Richard Melville wrote: > > > >I don't think it's a kernel issue. I'd check your disk assignment/UUIDs > >in the BIOS and grub to make sure the correct partitions are being called. > >Of course, I could be wrong. > No, Richard, you weren't wrong, but part of the problem was the kernel. > When I moved from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, the update added another > partition AFTER the EFI Boot Partition. Therefore, all the following > partitions were raised by one number. My LFS partitions moved from > /dev/sda6 to /dev/sda7. This, because I use the kernel efi stubs to boot, > necessitated a reconfigured kernel because I pass "root=/dev/sdax, ro" in > the kernel.
Ugh! That sounds horrible, I'm very glad you fixed it. Replying because of something a few paragraphs later: > I know more now, and > when I get to that part in my LFS-7.5 build--maybe I should wait until 7.6 > now-- Now that we are close to 7.6, and the main thing likely to differ from current svn is the next glibc release, I think that it might be a good time to wait : there is no point building an out of date system. Meanwhile, get your scripts, at least for those parts of BLFS which you *really* want to build, up to date. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
