Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-29 Thread Mike McCarty
Baho Utot wrote: > J.P.Kaper wrote: >> I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an >> external USB harddisk. >> My host system is SUSE 10.3 on one of my two internal harddisks. >> >> Booting from the USB disk fails with >> "[4.410067] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-29 Thread Baho Utot
J.P.Kaper wrote: > I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an > external USB harddisk. > My host system is SUSE 10.3 on one of my two internal harddisks. > > Booting from the USB disk fails with > "[4.410067] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount > root fs on un

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-29 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:19:24 Hans Kaper wrote: > > Good suggestion. So once again I made an entry in Grub's menu.lst, > carefully copying the disk/by-id-field from the SUSE-entry that boots > allright from the usb-disk (and checked it with the udevinfo information), > trying the partition

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-29 Thread Hans Kaper
Op Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:25:05 +0200 schreef Philipp Christian Loewner : > Hi, > have you double-checked that the root= kernel parameter is set > correctly in your menu.lst? So far, I only read about your fstab > in this thread. Check again what suggestions the kernel makes for > valid partition d

Re: Cannot execute /bin/bash : No such file or directory

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Rice
On 29-Sep-09, at 1:24 PM, Muzer wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> 2009/9/29 Chris Rice : >> >>> yes >>> >>> Chris >>> >> >> [...] >> Is there: sh -> bash in /bin? >> >> First, please don't top-post, it makes it extremely hard >> to follow the flow of the conversation. Second, ple

Re: gtk+-2.10.13 "make install" error

2009-09-29 Thread William Immendorf
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > BTW, please ignore William's mantra about upgrading.  My main system is an LFS > build from 2005 with a lot of upgrades.  It is not necessary to always rebuild > everything to the latest version.  I still have one server that was built in > 20

Re: gtk+-2.10.13 "make install" error

2009-09-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jim McConville wrote: > Reference BLFS-6.3 gtk+-2.10.13 > > While executing "make Install" I encountered the following: > Entering directory `/sources/xc/gtk+-2.10.13/modules/input' > /bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /etc/gtk-2.0../../gtk/gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > > /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules > Ca

Re: Cannot execute /bin/bash : No such file or directory

2009-09-29 Thread Muzer
Ken Moffat wrote: > 2009/9/29 Chris Rice : > >> yes >> >> Chris >> > > [...] > >>> Is there: >>> sh -> bash >>> in /bin? >>> > > First, please don't top-post, it makes it extremely hard > to follow the flow of the conversation. Second, please > trim what you are replying to. > >

Re: Cannot execute /bin/bash : No such file or directory

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Rice
Hello After entering ldd /bin/bash, I get the following output linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb8085000) libreadline.so.6 => /lib/libreadline.so.6 (0xb804f000) libhistory.so.6 => /lib/libhistory.so.6 (0xb8047000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7ffc000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7ff80

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-29 Thread Philipp Christian Loewner
Hi, have you double-checked that the root= kernel parameter is set correctly in your menu.lst? So far, I only read about your fstab in this thread. Check again what suggestions the kernel makes for valid partition device nodes... Just in case you haven't tried yet. - Philipp -- http://linuxfrom

Re: gtk+-2.10.13 "make install" error

2009-09-29 Thread William Immendorf
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Jim McConville wrote: > Reference BLFS-6.3 gtk+-2.10.13 > Has anyone at BLFS encountered this and if so is there any recommendation on > determing the source of the problem? A easy solution is not using BLFS 6.3. Why? Cause it's considered old now. Try the develo

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-29 Thread Hans Kaper
Op Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:29:08 +0200 schreef Baho Utot : > Ken Moffat wrote: >> 2009/9/26 J.P.Kaper : >> >>> Maybe somebody else can find the right suggestion to let me solve my >>> problem. >>> >>> Hans Kaper. >>> >> >> One of the problems with usb drives is that they can >> take a long time to

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-29 Thread Hans Kaper
Op Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:32:17 +0200 schreef Spahn, Daniel : >> Booting from the USB disk fails with >> "[4.410067] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount >> root fs on unknown-block (2,0)" >> > Have you tried changing the partition number up or down by one? > Yes, I have, but without

gtk+-2.10.13 "make install" error

2009-09-29 Thread Jim McConville
Reference BLFS-6.3 gtk+-2.10.13 While executing "make Install" I encountered the following: Entering directory `/sources/xc/gtk+-2.10.13/modules/input' /bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /etc/gtk-2.0../../gtk/gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules Cannot load module /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10

Re: Cannot execute /bin/bash : No such file or directory

2009-09-29 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/9/29 Chris Rice : > yes > > Chris [...] >> Is there: >> sh -> bash >> in /bin? First, please don't top-post, it makes it extremely hard to follow the flow of the conversation. Second, please trim what you are replying to. And yes, I know that other lists, and even gmail, do things differe