i have not gotten that far into the book, but especially since you're not using
an initrd i strongly susupect you want grub 0.97, they are just enough alike to
drive one batty! the documentation hasn't become any more clear and concise
either (the old man is usable, it just takes a lot of careful reading).
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26. Jul 2017 00:27 by [email protected]:
> By running grub-install --version in the terminal, it appears that I am
> running
> (GRUB) 2.02~beta3.
>
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 8:17 AM, > [email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Do you know which version of GRUB you have? from the below and my own
>> previous playing it sounds like you may be reading instructions for 0.97
>> GRUB and using a 2.X version of grub, or possibly the other way around. i
>> swear a few hours of looking at the grub2.x and 0.97 manuals makes it
>> impossible to understand either, they are completely different code with
>> sort-of same sounding but different needs, just enough in common to drive
>> you nuts, best to learn only one!
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>> 25. Jul 2017 10:09 by >> [email protected]>> :
>>
>>> Hello lfs support community!
>>>
>>> I have recently went through the majority of the lfs book, and up until
>>> the final step, everything has gone great. At every opportunity I tested
>>> the system, and did not experience and serious issues. However, I am
>>> now having problems with the final step of rebooting the system. Namely, my
>>> problem is that after the grub menu is loaded, I am greeted by a black
>>> screen filled with text and a message stating:
>>>
>>> VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> To address the first point, I am fairly certain I specified the correct
>>> partition in /boot/grub/grub.cfg (above it is written menu.lst but I
>>> suppose that is a minor detail). I am booting from a uefi system.
>>> Because of this, to set up grub I followed the hint at
>>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/lfs-uefi.txt>>> .
>>>
>>>
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