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On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Hazel Russman <hazeldeb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 21:59:08 +0800 > Patrick Kennedy <kenned...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. > No, that should be sufficient. udev should make the other devices as > the kernel detects the hardware. But you need the kernel's DEVTMPFS to > be set to "y". > > > > 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 > > > Normally you only need an initrd for a stock kernel. When you build > your own, you should compile in the necessary disk drivers rather than > building them as modules, so that nothing needs to be loaded at boot. > > > 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. > > The defconfig kernel should contain all the drivers you need but I > don't know which ones it compiles in. You can check by looking in > the config file in /boot. The SATA and ext4 drivers should definitely be > compiled in, not as modules. > > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
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