Okay, it crashed and burned gloriously, and I botched the grub to boot.  ;-)

After some studies on grub, I can now boot my distro Debian from the
primary hard drive via grub commands...very cool.  I can also attempt to
boot my LFS from auxiliary hard drive, and it starts to boot up, and I see
four penguins, a screen's worth of boot messages, and then it freezes up.

Questions:

Firstly, there is /dev, but it only has console and null in it, which was
created earlier per the book.  Is that sufficient?  Is /dev populated more
as the boot progresses?  Seems deficient.

Secondly, I don't see any initrd.img file.  Do I need one?  Here's what I
see in /boot:

config-3.13.3
grub
System-map-3.13.3
vmlinuz-3.13.3-lfs-7.5

I just did "make defconfig" when building the kernel.  I figure that would
be the easiest way to test...and just to see if it works.  Maybe I need to
load a better driver for auxiliary USB hard drives, etc., and somehow make
that apart of the kernel building, but I would need to study more on that
aspect.

Any ideas on how best to proceed and troubleshoot?

Thanks.  ~Patrick
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