First things first: I apologize if this is an asked-and-answered question, and second, thanks to the creators and contributors of LFS for a challenging and rewarding project.
I successfully finished and booted my LFS8.4 system last weekend. It boots, I can bring up the network and ping places, so I consider it a success. But... I built it on my “main” laptop, which has a 4K screen. The size of raw text on a 4K screen is what... 1/8” at most? I copied all of /mnt/lfs to a USB drive and have been trying to get it reinstalled on a different laptop, one with a normal 1920x1080 screen. It took me a bit of fiddling to remove the rEFInd boot manager I had been using and get GRUB back in place. I’ve gotten GRUB to find and add my LFS to the boot menu, and the entry looks correct. But when I try and boot it, I get some bizarre kernel panics - the most common being about “failure to dereference a null pointer” or words to that effect. I backed up in the LFS book and reran everything from unpacking the LFS-Bootscripts to recompiling and reinstalling the kernel. It still goes haywire. Do I need to rebuild the whole thing? Or from a certain point? It’s unclear how transferrable an LFS build is supposed to be. Thanks in advance!
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