Re: Boot floppy for liveCD...

2005-09-12 Thread Richard A Downing
Christopher Reimer wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: I'm unclear what you mean by 40MB/20GB and 'Ontrack' - that sounds like a windoze driver ? I imagine it will take several days to build LFS on a P100, so I wouldn't look forward to it, but it should certainly be possible. The laptop I have

Re: Boot floppy for liveCD...

2005-09-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Richard A Downing wrote: You won't need Ontrack for any Linux system, since the Linux kernel drives the disk directly and not through the BIOS. It's the BIOS that doesn't recognise the disk, not the hardware. The big problem is that grub uses the BIOS to access the disk

Boot failure of LFS-6.1

2005-09-12 Thread alupu
PROBLEM: New, complete LFS-6.1 system doesn't boot (details below). - Book: LFS v6.1 All packages installed. No deviations. No errors. - Host: LiveCD (lfslivcd-x86-6.1-2.iso) - i686-pc-linux-gnu - ASUS P4S533, P4-3.066GHz, BIOS Award v6.0 v1006, HT enabled DETAILS: lfskernel-2.6.11.12

Re: Boot failure of LFS-6.1

2005-09-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grub kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.11.12 root=/dev/hda5 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1600, size=0x26f8e9] grub boot ... Uncompressing kernel ... ... [kernel coming up] ACPI (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)

File not found though its there

2005-09-12 Thread Bernhard Reiter
hi, me again ;) i have restarted my installation attempt, now following exactly the book. But now already binutils is making trouble. it dies when trying to install it. /bin/sh: /tools/bin/ranlib: No such file or directory so i took a look and ranlib IS there (and also the other binarys). But

Cross compile for an i586

2005-09-12 Thread Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This isn't related to the following thread but I will quote from it. RE: Boot floppy for liveCD... Ken Moffat wrote: ... Cross-lfs is probably untested for pentium-class processors ( i686), and had certain issues with glibc last week

Re: File not found though its there

2005-09-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bernhard Reiter wrote: bash: /tools/bin/ranlib: No such file or directory but it IS there. Does the FAQ help here at all? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html#any-no-such-file Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: File not found though its there

2005-09-12 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 20:09 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: so i took a look and ranlib IS there (and also the other binarys). But if i type in teh shell the name of any binary in the bin dir it just says: bash: /tools/bin/ranlib: No such file or directory but it IS there. i can see it in the

Re: Cross compile for an i586

2005-09-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Mark wrote: Does this mean that I can't cross compile for my i586 on my i686 machine I was looking at the LFS 7.0-cross-lfs but wasn't following it since I wanted HLFS features. No, I was replying in the context of a *first* LFS build, on what is by today's

Re: Linux-Libc-header installation

2005-09-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
rick wrote: I have finally managed to get to step 5.5, Installation of Linux-Libc-Headers without any errors but now am stuck. The instructions given on pg. 57 in Linux From Scratch ver 6.1 show performing a cp from (what I believe) is my original partition... cp -R include/asm-i386

Re: Linux-Libc-header installation

2005-09-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, rick wrote: The instructions given on pg. 57 in Linux From Scratch ver 6.1 show performing a cp from (what I believe) is my original partition... cp -R include/asm-i386 /tools/include/asm and cp -R include/linux /tools/include My questions are 1. Am I understanding this

Re: Cross compile for an i586

2005-09-12 Thread Richard A Downing
Mark wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: ... Cross-lfs is probably untested for pentium-class processors ( i686), and had certain issues with glibc last week which make me reluctant to recommend it for this specific situation (because restarting from the beginning will be painfully slow), and the

Re: Linux-Libc-header installation

2005-09-12 Thread Andrew Benton
rick wrote: I have finally managed to get to step 5.5, Installation of Linux-Libc-Headers without any errors but now am stuck. The instructions given on pg. 57 in Linux From Scratch ver 6.1 show performing a cp from (what I believe) is my original partition... cp -R include/asm-i386

Re: Boot failure of LFS-6.1

2005-09-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of the book (6.1), there's a confusion on page 103: 'console' and 'null' are mounted twice and 'console' with different modes (622 seems to be the correct choice). The first pair of devices are what we need to start a sensible boot

Re: Boot failure of LFS-6.1

2005-09-12 Thread Andrew Benton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of the book (6.1), there's a confusion on page 103: 'console' and 'null' are mounted twice and 'console' with different modes (622 seems to be the correct choice). No, not mounted. mknod creates block or character special files which allow the kernel and