On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 11:30:04AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Anthony Price wrote: > > >cat /etc/lfs-release shows 7.6 > > > >findmnt gives the error message can't read /proc/mounts > > Hmm. /proc is not mounted. That happens in the very first boot script. > > >I wonder if it would be useful to go back to the book 7.2 and reinstall > >the bootscripts.. > > Well you could do that or edit /etc/sysconfig/rc.site to uncomment > > #IPROMPT="yes" # Whether to display the interactive boot prompt > #itime="3" # The ammount of time (in seconds) to display the prompt > > > And then go through the boot scripts one at a time to see what is happening. > > -- Bruce
In the past I have sometimes had odd failures between the kernel handing over to init and getting a prompt. In those cases I add "init=/bin/sh" to the grub command line, then do as Bruce suggests and step through the bootscripts - although, since we know that the first bootscript is failing, it probably won't make a difference here (unless something is seriously broken). But the reference to rc.shutdown worries me - like Bruce, I have never seen it mentioned on an LFS system, and strings /sbin/shutdown does not find any reference to it. It sounds like something from a different distro. Is it possible that you have got a bogus "root= " entry in your grub.cfg, which starts the LFS kernel, but tells it to use some other filesystem (on which you have had another distro) as '/' ? Or, alternatively, things from a previous distro are scattered on the LFS-7.6 partition ? Yes, I see that you have set /etc/lfs-release on that partition, but something is VERY odd here. 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 Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
