Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

2009-04-16 Thread Mike McCarty
ForrestG wrote: I have 256MB ram but motherboard detect only 128MB Well, that looks like a problem, but it doesn't look like the cause of your boot failure. The error report looks like you are using too much stack. If so, then the problem is not insufficient RAM. Unless you use a RAM disc, and

LFS Live CD future direction -- a suggestion

2009-04-16 Thread Robert A. Lerche
First, I want to thank everyone involved in creating the LFS project. It is a beautiful piece of software craftsmanship -- useful, elegant and well documented. I'm writing this post because I have a suggestion for the Live CD part of the LFS project. I went back and read the Live CD mailing list

Report on JHALFS with LiveCD 6.3 r2160

2009-04-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Sorry this is longish, but I didn't want to post piecemeal as I went, with this failed and what I did, then later oh, this failed, too etc. Too much clutter. Well, I have fiddled this and that, and somewhat gotten JHALFS to work with the LiveCd as the host distribution. The first hurdle is that

LFS Chapter 5.34 and Ubuntu

2009-04-16 Thread stencil
LFS Chapter 5.34 advises ## The commands in the remainder of this book ##must be performed while logged in as user root ## and no longer as user lfs. Also, double check ## that $LFS is set in root's environment. The orthodox Ubuntu way of acting as root is to prepend 'sudo' to each command.

Re: LFS Chapter 5.34 and Ubuntu

2009-04-16 Thread Trent Shea
On Thursday 16 April 2009 13:19:56 stencil wrote: Which is the better choice, -i or -s? And if it is to be -i, is the LFS 4.4 procedure the best way of ensuring that $LFS is set to /mnt/lfs, or should the $LFS specification be the *only* change made to root's native environment? I don't

Re: LFS Chapter 5.34 and Ubuntu

2009-04-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 02:09:51PM -0600, Trent Shea wrote: On Thursday 16 April 2009 13:19:56 stencil wrote: Which is the better choice, -i or -s? And if it is to be -i, is the LFS 4.4 procedure the best way of ensuring that $LFS is set to /mnt/lfs, or should the $LFS specification be