Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 is released

2012-09-02 Thread Oshadha Gunawardena
Great..! On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Toby Ferguson toby.h.fergu...@gmail.comwrote: Congratulations. I've been waiting to give this whole LFS thing a try - perhaps now I shall. Toby On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: The Linux From Scratch

[lfs-support] LFS Book 7 | chapter 7 what to ignore

2012-09-02 Thread Oshadha Gunawardena
Ok, so I managed to do up to the chapter 6 and now reading through the chapter 7. In section 7.2 it says that I can ignore this section if I only has one network interface, so basically the entire section 7.2 I can ignore (7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3). And my question is doesn't this section 7.2 relates

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Book 7 | chapter 7 what to ignore

2012-09-02 Thread spiky
On 02/09/12 11:05, Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: Ok, so I managed to do up to the chapter 6 and now reading through the chapter 7. In section 7.2 it says that I can ignore this section if I only has one network interface, so basically the entire section 7.2 I can ignore (7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3). And

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Book 7 | chapter 7 what to ignore

2012-09-02 Thread Oshadha Gunawardena
I'm not using any network cards specifically. On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 3:41 PM, spiky martynvid...@aol.com wrote: On 02/09/12 11:05, Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: Ok, so I managed to do up to the chapter 6 and now reading through the chapter 7. In section 7.2 it says that I can ignore this

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Book 7 | chapter 7 what to ignore

2012-09-02 Thread spiky
On 02/09/12 11:30, Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: I'm not using any network cards specifically. On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 3:41 PM, spiky martynvid...@aol.com mailto:martynvid...@aol.com wrote: On 02/09/12 11:05, Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: Ok, so I managed to do up to the chapter 6 and now

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-09-02 Thread Mikie
Thanks Elly. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Book 7 | chapter 7 what to ignore

2012-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: Ok, so I managed to do up to the chapter 6 and now reading through the chapter 7. In section 7.2 it says that I can ignore this section if I only has one network interface, so basically the entire section 7.2 I can ignore (7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3). If you don't have

Re: [lfs-support] Grub Questions (or how to waist yet ... even more ... precious electrons)

2012-09-02 Thread Mikie
I promise you all I am responding because I really believe what I am about to say is very relevant to LFS and what LFS intends to do which is teach Linux. Before I make one more attempt to clarify I wanted to make a few statements to make sure my reply won't be misunderstood. I promise this will

Re: [lfs-support] The learning process

2012-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mikie wrote: I would love to volunteer to supplement LFS with a starting place to help newbie's get to where they could do LFS and not get so frustrated and frustrate you folks. If I could get some commitment from at least one person I would put at least 6 month into it.

[lfs-support] Grub Questions (or how to waist yet ... even more ... precious electrons)

2012-09-02 Thread alex lupu
Hi Mikie, I hate to toot my own horn, but I'm a teacher too. However, unlike you my specialty is posting so I'm volunteering my 1st lesson (to whet people's appetite to subscribe to my newsletter - for a small fee). Lesson #1 A post should have lines not greater than 79 characters. In other

Re: [lfs-support] Grub Questions (or how to waist yet ... even more ... precious electrons)

2012-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
alex lupu wrote: A post should have lines not greater than 79 characters. Yes, that's good, but many times what you see is due to the mail client. Often the client posts in HTML. For the most compatibility, it's much better to post in plain text only. Personally, I don't think there is

[lfs-support] booting LFS

2012-09-02 Thread Garrett Gaston
I finished LFS but it will not boot. When powering on the computer I get a boot screen showing one option, GNU/Linux, Linux 3.2.6-lfs-7.1. When selected with ENTER I get Press any key to continue, then it goes back to the same boot screen with the same option. Any ideas.

Re: [lfs-support] booting LFS

2012-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: I finished LFS but it will not boot. When powering on the computer I get a boot screen showing one option, GNU/Linux, Linux 3.2.6-lfs-7.1. When selected with ENTER I get Press any key to continue, then it goes back to the same boot screen with the same option. Any

Re: [lfs-support] booting LFS

2012-09-02 Thread Garrett Gaston
I haven't yet fixed Debian's boot process but I tried to fix the LFS boot loader, I edited files via ssh as usual, I just had to download and burn a boot cd to get it up and running. I got a little progress in that now LFS is trying to start but I'M getting a couple of errors. 2.033750] VFS

Re: [lfs-support] booting LFS

2012-09-02 Thread Garrett Gaston
sda1 is the LFS system sda2 is the swap partition sda3 is the host Debian system Debian grub.cfg http://pastebin.com/s7avRXM1 LFS grub.cfg http://pastebin.com/Pmw1KQVG -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] booting LFS

2012-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: I haven't yet fixed Debian's boot process but I tried to fix the LFS boot loader, I edited files via ssh as usual, I just had to download and burn a boot cd to get it up and running. I got a little progress in that now LFS is trying to start but I'M getting a couple of

Re: [lfs-support] booting LFS

2012-09-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: sda1 is the LFS system sda2 is the swap partition sda3 is the host Debian system Debian grub.cfg http://pastebin.com/s7avRXM1 LFS grub.cfg http://pastebin.com/Pmw1KQVG OK. The line: linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.6-lfs-7.1 root=/dev/sda2 ro should be pointing

[lfs-support] /usr/lib/libstdc++.la getting trashed

2012-09-02 Thread Ken Moffat
For some months now, I've had failures in BLFS when /usr/libstdc++.la was found to be empty ('not a valid libtool archive') : I know Armin removes these .la files, but I've found that some things don't rebuild on updates if I do that - on x86_64 and previously on ppc/{,64}. Last week, I had

Re: [lfs-support] booting LFS

2012-09-02 Thread William Harrington
On Sep 2, 2012, at 16:41 PM, Garrett Gaston wrote: 2.033750] VFS : Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy 2.034037] VFS : Cannot open root device sda2 or unknown-black(2,0) 2.034109] Please append a correct root= boot option ; here are the available partitions: 2.034209]