brown wrap wrote:
In 8.4.1 there is a procedure to build a rescue floppy. The procedure
uses grub-mkrescue which would support a cdrom if genisoimage. Has
anyone figured out a way to make a rescue cdrom?
I download a copy of KNOPPIX and burn a disc. I also like sysrecuecd.
Mike
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Kyle Rush wrote:
I have a livecd 6.3 and book 6.3. the computer I am installing it on is
somewhat old, and thus 1 SBU = about one hour. I can't figure out how to
shut down the machine without losing everything i was working on. I do not
know if this was covered in the book; i don't think it
On Fri, February 12, 2010 4:48 am, Mike McCarty wrote:
Kyle Rush wrote:
I have a livecd 6.3 and book 6.3. the computer I am installing it on is
somewhat old, and thus 1 SBU = about one hour. I can't figure out how to
shut down the machine without losing everything i was working on. I do
not
On 12/02/10 12:14, Kyle Rush wrote:
I have a livecd 6.3 and book 6.3. the computer I am installing it on is
somewhat old, and thus 1 SBU = about one hour. I can't figure out how to
shut down the machine without losing everything i was working on.
If you've made a partition on your hard drive
On Fri, February 12, 2010 5:15 am, Andrew Benton wrote:
On 12/02/10 12:14, Kyle Rush wrote:
I have a livecd 6.3 and book 6.3. the computer I am installing it on is
somewhat old, and thus 1 SBU = about one hour. I can't figure out how to
shut down the machine without losing everything i was
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:14:37 +0100, Kyle Rush k...@cyber-rush.org wrote:
I have a livecd 6.3 and book 6.3. the computer I am installing it on is
somewhat old, and thus 1 SBU = about one hour. I can't figure out how to
shut down the machine without losing everything i was working on. I do
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Mike McCarty
mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Jordan Peters wrote:
i'm using the ubuntu linux livecd to make my 6.5 lfs install and i'm
wondering how to save the variables and such i make during the book.
like is there a way to save the info created during
brown wrap wrote:
I finshed compiling everything but can't boot. Here's my problem. I
have two internal disks and one external:
/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
In reading the book, it said to set aside a partition for LFS. I did,
it was the 2nd partition of sdc, sdc2
So as one of my last
Did you follow the instructions and boot GRUB2 from GRUB
Legacy to test
it out before updating the MBR?
-- Bruce
I must have missed them. I will go back and look.
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On 12/02/10 17:07, brown wrap wrote:
I finshed compiling everything but can't boot. Here's my problem.
I have two internal disks and one external:
/dev/sda
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdc
In reading the book, it said to set aside a partition for LFS. I did, it was
the 2nd partition
of sdc, sdc2
So
Kyle Rush wrote:
On Fri, February 12, 2010 4:48 am, Mike McCarty wrote:
[get]
stages-stop-and-resume.txt
I'm sure if you look in the hints section of the web site you
can find it. If you have troubles, then I can shoot you a copy
via separate e-mail.
[...]
OK thanks, but I'm losing
stosss wrote:
Both of your scripts could be figured out. The second one probably a
lot easier and faster then the first, but would you be willing to
share the details of those scripts especially the first one? Like
maybe post it some where so any one that wants to take a look can.
Well,
brown wrap wrote:
So what was the error? Was this second entry to try to boot grub2
on sdc2? Did grub2 load or did it quit with an error? Did grub2
fail to boot the kernel?
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:08 PM, brown wrap gra...@yahoo.com wrote:
The first time I tried to modify the old grub.conf, I just add the lines
created by the new grub.cfg, must made them adhere to the format used in
grub.conf. That attempted boot, resulted in no such partition.
So I changed
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mike McCarty
mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
stosss wrote:
svn-20100203 from the 02-10-2010 archive
The last sentence in the paragraph between make and make test.
_To run the test suite, first copy the scp program to /usr/bin, making
sure that you back up
Because the syntax is wrong. See the example in the
book.
Also, the kernel line is probably wrong if you didn't set
up a separate
/boot partition.
It's really hard maintain patience when users ask questions
without
trying to do some research, like reading the book, on their
own.
Because the syntax is wrong. See the example in the
book.
Also, the kernel line is probably wrong if you didn't set
up a separate
/boot partition.
It's really hard maintain patience when users ask questions
without
trying to do some research, like reading the book, on their
own.
It's
Did you read this in the book:
GRUB uses its own naming structure for drives and
partitions in the
form of (hdn,m), where n is the hard drive number and m is
the
partition number, both starting from zero. For example,
partition hda1
is (hd0,0) to GRUB and hdb3 is (hd1,2). In contrast
brown wrap wrote:
Did you read this in the book:
[...]
Thank you, I missed that.
First step when having a problem is re read the relevant section,
slowly, carefully, and look for typos, mistakes, spelling errors,
etc.
Mike
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Mike McCarty
mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
stosss wrote:
[where's my stuff?]
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mike McCarty
mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
[...]
That depends upon how you configure your build. I suggest you
read the section in the
I am working from book 6.5
I am up to the stage of building Glibc from within the system proper, chap
ter 6 section 9.1
This command:
DL=3D$(readelf -l /bin/sh | sed -n
's...@.*interpret.*/tools\(.*\)]...@\1@p')
produces the following output:
bash: command
bchaf...@programmer.net wrote:
I am working from book 6.5
I am up to the stage of building Glibc from within the system proper, chap
ter 6 section 9.1
This command:
DL=3D$(readelf -l /bin/sh | sed -n
's...@.*interpret.*/tools\(.*\)]...@\1@p')
^^
Extra
linux fan wrote:
On 2/12/10, brown wrap gra...@yahoo.com wrote:
So I changed the grub.conf to:
title GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32.7-lfs-6.6-rc1
root (hd2,1)
kernel /vmlinux-2.6.32.7-lfs-6.6-rc1 root=/dev/sdc2
I think Grub2 wants it to say:
root (hd2,2)
brown wrap wrote:
Let me start over and maybe I can make things clear. I built the LFS
using Centos 5.4, running with the old GRUB. Here is my system
layout:
/dev/sda has Centos with its swap being the 2nd partiton. /dev/sdb I
use to download files and store things.
/dev/sdc is two
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
bchaf...@programmer.net wrote:
I am working from book 6.5
I am up to the stage of building Glibc from within the system proper,
chap
ter 6 section 9.1
This command:
DL=3D$(readelf -l /bin/sh | sed -n
's...@.*interpret.*/tools\(.*\)]...@\1@p')
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:22:24 -0800
Kyle Rush k...@cyber-rush.org wrote:
On Fri, February 12, 2010 5:15 am, Andrew Benton wrote:
On 12/02/10 12:14, Kyle Rush wrote:
I have a livecd 6.3 and book 6.3. the computer I am installing it
on is somewhat old, and thus 1 SBU = about one hour. I
A little more. I didn't list the size of the disks because I didn't think it
was important, but since the legacy GRUB may not be able to handle them:
sda is small, I am not at the machine until Sunday or Monday.
sdb is one TB that I just store stuff on.
sdc is the disk with LFS on it. It is
brown wrap wrote:
A little more. I didn't list the size of the disks because I didn't
think it was important, but since the legacy GRUB may not be able to
handle them:
sda is small, I am not at the machine until Sunday or Monday.
sdb is one TB that I just store stuff on.
sdc is the
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 20:48 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
IMO, 750G is way too big for an LFS partition.
Well, not *too* big, in the sense of causing problems. Unnecessarily
big might be a better wording, and I'd agree.
Separating data from applications is practically a necessity when it
comes to
I wanted to install LFS on a fresh partition and this was the only unused SATA
drive I had. I had small IDE drives, but this computer doesn't have an IDE
interface.
And when it comes to cost now $40 gets you double this size. I could
repartition the drive, but I am trying to avoid it. I
brown wrap wrote:
I wanted to install LFS on a fresh partition and this was the only
unused SATA drive I had. I had small IDE drives, but this computer
doesn't have an IDE interface. And when it comes to cost now $40 gets
you double this size. I could repartition the drive, but I am trying
to
brown wrap schrieb:
[...]
So here is my question. If I move the external drive inside and make it the
first drive, will I be able to boot, even though LFS is on the 2nd partiton?
I don't want to, but I could move everyting over to the first partition, but
I'd have to wipe it out, which I
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