Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:24:53AM -0700, Trent Shea wrote: It really depends on how you build your kernel; hd* is still valid, as far as I'm aware. That's not my experience. My /dev/hd* devices disappeared when I upgraded 2.6.27 to 2.6.28 and I have no /dev/sr* or new /dev/sd*

Re: grub problem

2009-11-24 Thread Duncan Baynes
What is the brand and model of the motherboard you are trying to use to boot this LFS system? It's rare but occasionally you need to compile some less than obvious drivers into the kernel to make the system boot properly. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: grub problem

2009-11-24 Thread Duncan Baynes
su.sinnes wrote: What is the brand and model of the motherboard you are trying to use to boot this LFS system? I am using vmware Which file system are you using? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html

Re: youtube with gnash / and thoughts on gnme-2.28

2009-11-24 Thread krendoshazin
Ken Moffat wrote: OK, I had another look at the gnash list archives. Looks as if this came up earlier - .http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash-dev/2009-10/msg00093.html Summary: add the flashblock extension (this means you have to start each flash video, which is probably a good thing

Re: grub problem

2009-11-24 Thread su.sinnes
Which file system are you using? /dev/sda1 on /mnt/lfs type ext3 (rw) Thanks -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: grub problem

2009-11-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
su.sinnes wrote: I put an * on everything with, SATA, and all filesystems, and a lot of other things for this recompilation. and i changed file under /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/sda to (sd0) /dev/sda then ran grub-mkconfig -o /boot/boot/grub/grub.cfg again. do you think its

Re: Segmentation fault after stripping

2009-11-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
linux fan wrote: On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote: linux fan wrote: On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Have you tried booting into memtest86+ and checking your memory? Thanks for that! Eliminated one memory bank at a time until it didn't fail before test #5. Rolled back to textinfo-ch5.

Re: UDEV - Not Leaving Well Enough Alone

2009-11-24 Thread linux fan
On 11/24/09, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 18:29 -0600, al...@verizon.net wrote: The last thing is to start a flame here; I still see a need for floppies on Linux Agree there is a need for floppies. I just used a floppy to boot memtest86+ which found a bad

Re: Segmentation fault after stripping

2009-11-24 Thread linux fan
On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'd start over. Having a suspect base is not a good idea. Try jhalfs to automate the build. Yes jhalfs has been working for me. Starting over from mke2fs. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: UDEV - Not Leaving Well Enough Alone

2009-11-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
linux fan wrote: On 11/24/09, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 18:29 -0600, al...@verizon.net wrote: The last thing is to start a flame here; I still see a need for floppies on Linux Agree there is a need for floppies. I just used a floppy to boot memtest86+

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/11/24 linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com: On 11/24/09, Jeremy Henty onepo...@starurchin.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:24:53AM -0700, Trent Shea wrote: It really depends on how you  build your kernel; hd* is still valid, as far as I'm aware. That's  not my  experience.  My  

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Am Dienstag 24 November 2009 17:36:32 schrieb linux fan: As far as I am aware, greub always did, always will, call them hd. I also think so. To be exact, it calls them hd when it means in grub-speak (hd0, and they can be called sd when it means in real-speak /dev/sda (if it is sata) So you

Re: UDEV - Not Leaving Well Enough Alone

2009-11-24 Thread linux fan
On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote: That works for you, but for most people, it's far easier to use a usb thumb drive with capacities in GB to do the same thing. I know that it is impossible to believe, but I have yet to purchase my first usb thumb drive. --

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread linux fan
On 11/24/09, Ken Moffat wrote: The names of the devices in grub and within linux are two separate things. For an explanation of why /dev/hdX becomes /dev/sdX see Simon's response to another thread. /dev/hdX (from the old IDE drivers) is now regarded as legacy, except for old ppc

Re: grub problem

2009-11-24 Thread linux fan
On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote: If you are getting a kernel panic, it's not grub. Grub did it's job and loaded the kernel, then the kernel had a problem. Agree. But, there are 2 places that cause kernel panic: 1) grub's kernel/linux line, the root=/dev/[is_incorrect] parameter 2) fstab's:

Re: UDEV - Not Leaving Well Enough Alone

2009-11-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
linux fan wrote: On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote: That works for you, but for most people, it's far easier to use a usb thumb drive with capacities in GB to do the same thing. I know that it is impossible to believe, but I have yet to purchase my first usb thumb drive. I don't know where

Re: LFS is at 6.5 BLFS is at 6.3 Why?

2009-11-24 Thread Nicolas FRANCOIS
Le Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:23:03 -0500, stosss sto...@gmail.com a écrit : Why does LFS stay so far ahead of BLFS? What is the point of building the newest LFS if the BLFS files are older and probably won't work or would be replacing newer versions of apps with older versions? There is a note on

Re: UDEV - Not Leaving Well Enough Alone

2009-11-24 Thread linux fan
On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I don't know where you live, but I've seen them given away as promotions. Otherwise they are very common at $10 or less. Some day, I might get one. I don't care what udev does as long as it doesn't cause problems. I've got the 16 fd things in dev and was never

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread Paul W. Lane
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/24/09, Ken Moffat wrote:  The names of the devices in grub and within linux are two separate things.  For an explanation of why /dev/hdX becomes /dev/sdX see Simon's response to another thread. If the kernel is

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread Kc9EYE
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/24/09, Ken Moffat wrote:  The names of the devices in grub and within linux are two separate things.  For an explanation of why /dev/hdX becomes /dev/sdX see Simon's response to another thread. If the kernel is

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread Kc9EYE
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/24/09, Ken Moffat wrote:  The names of the devices in grub and within linux are two separate things.  For an explanation of why /dev/hdX becomes /dev/sdX see Simon's response to another thread. If the kernel is

Re: UDEV - Not Leaving Well Enough Alone

2009-11-24 Thread alupu
Hello Simon Linux Fan, The thread started as a complaint about UDEV eliminating the only workaround, last_rule, I could use to avoid the pollution of the /dev with a relatively large number of nonsensical floppy nodes (from my standpoint), which was followed by a pleading for help. It's taken

Re: Segmentation fault after stripping

2009-11-24 Thread linux fan
On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote: linux fan wrote: Intending to umount and roll back, I get: df -ha FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda11 11G 7.6G 2.7G 74% / /proc0 0 0 - /proc sysfs0 0 0