Re: Grub Hangs

2008-05-19 Thread Wehner y Asociados
Success! Grub no longer hangs. I reformatted the hard disk, installed Vector Linux 5.9 Light, ran zcat on /proc/config.gz, copied the resulting file to a USB flash drive formatted with the ext3 file system, reformatted the hard disk, and redid the LFS project (I took the opportunity to write

Adjusting Toolchain

2008-05-19 Thread John Brookbank
Dear Sir, or Madam, Over the years I have tried to install LFS, and have generally completed the part 1 installation successfully, before I have to stop for some reason. I live and work around the world. However, this time I have not been able to pass Adjusting the Toolchain in Part 1. I

SATA PC Fails to Boot PATA Linux Drive

2008-05-19 Thread alupu
Hello, I'm trying to move an IDE LFS drive from an older PATA computer to a new SATA computer. I've been unsuccessful so far. After literally hundreds of iterations/permutations of Master/Slave, various 'rdev' settings, BIOS settings, kernel ... root=/dev/... in GRUB, Linux versions

Re: SATA PC Fails to Boot PATA Linux Drive

2008-05-19 Thread support
Hi there, I think you are missing the driver for your hard disk controller in the kernel (or as a module to be loaded by initrd). Try booting from a livecd again and look at the output of lspci and lsmod, try to work out which module is your disk controller, then recompile your lfs kernel to

Re: Adjusting Toolchain

2008-05-19 Thread cx8508
John Brookbank wrote: Dear Sir, or Madam, Over the years I have tried to install LFS, and have generally completed the part 1 installation successfully, before I have to stop for some reason. I live and work around the world. However, this time I have not been able to pass “Adjusting the

Re: SATA PC Fails to Boot PATA Linux Drive

2008-05-19 Thread cx8508
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to move an IDE LFS drive from an older PATA computer to a new SATA computer. I've been unsuccessful so far. After literally hundreds of iterations/permutations of Master/Slave, various 'rdev' settings, BIOS settings, kernel ... root=/dev/... in

Re: SATA PC Fails to Boot PATA Linux Drive

2008-05-19 Thread alupu
On 2008/05/19 Mon PM 06:00:57 EDT, Phill Upson wrote: I think you are missing the driver for your hard disk controller in the kernel (or as a module to be loaded by initrd). Try booting from a livecd again and look at the output of lspci and lsmod, try to work out which module is your disk