Re: [lfs-support] Mouse Trouble -- SOLVED

2013-11-26 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
Again with the great suggestions of several people, I got the mouse to work. Bottom line: I completely misunderstood the instructions in the BLFS book on installing Cups. A note on kernel configuration says: There is a conflict between the Cups libusb backend and the usblp kernel driver. If

Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-11-25 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
working etc.). Then start in single mode and post output of lspci -v. David 2013/11/24 Alan Feuerbacher alan...@comcast.net: On 11/24/2013 10:33 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Alan Feuerbacher wrote: On 11/24/2013 12:19 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Per Ken's suggestion, I added the ethernet driver for my

Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-11-25 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/25/2013 10:15 AM, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 25-11-2013 11:59, Alan Feuerbacher escreveu: 2: p4p1: BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 30:85:a9:8f:31:09 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff I think that if you s

Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-11-25 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/25/2013 11:04 AM, William Harrington wrote: On Nov 25, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: 2: p4p1: BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 30:85:a9:8f:31:09 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 10.0.1.31/24 brd

Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-11-25 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/25/2013 11:27 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: Alan, you have gotten a number of great suggestions from some really helpful people. I think, however, that the waters are very muddy right now. The main problem is that your system can't find your ethernet card--eth0. That's the first goal. After

Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-11-25 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/25/2013 11:32 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Alan Feuerbacher wrote: r8169 71677 0 This is what you need to configure in your kernel. Use y and not m. Done. My earlier emails indicate that I've gotten the card working. Then when you boot, you should see a device in /sys

Re: [lfs-support] Interesting Names

2013-11-25 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/25/2013 9:06 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: ... Here's the mystery for me: Alan and I have the same NIC. We probably have different boxes, but I don't think that's relevant. He built LFS-7.4 just like I did. Kernel 3.10.10 + identical NIC = same kernel configuration. However, his NIC is

[lfs-support] Mouse Trouble

2013-11-25 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
Now that I've got my linux-3.12 system up and running, and the ethernet card running, I'm running into another problem: The mouse is not detected. The mouse (an older Microsoft Intellimouse USB model) works fine with the mouse-based BIOS and with my Fedora installation, so there's probably

Re: [lfs-support] Error: invalid file name When Booting For theFirstTime

2013-11-24 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/24/2013 12:07 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Alan Feuerbacher wrote: Well I finally found the problem why linux would not boot: for some reason grub is assigning (hd0) to /dev/sdb. I suspect that's because you installed GRUB on /dev/sdb. IIRC, you did grub-install /dev/sdb, so I'd think

Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-11-24 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/24/2013 12:19 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Alan Feuerbacher wrote: Can anyone clue me in? It sounds like you don't have the right ethernet driver built. We recommend building it into the kernel. Ok, then I must have missed something when building the system. What do I look for in the LFS

Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-11-24 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/24/2013 10:33 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Alan Feuerbacher wrote: On 11/24/2013 12:19 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Per Ken's suggestion, I added the ethernet driver for my Realtek ethernet device, recompiled the kernel, reinstalled systemd/udev from scratch. Still no luck. When linux starts, I

Re: [lfs-support] Error: invalid file name When Booting For the First Time

2013-11-23 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/23/2013 4:43 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 23/11/2013 03:39, Alan Feuerbacher a écrit : I do not see vmlinuz-3.12-lfs-SVN-20131105 (as mentioned in /boot/grub/grub.cfg) in the listing of the /boot directory... I think the line in grub.cfg could be: linux /vmlinuz-3.12-lfs-SVN-20131119

Re: [lfs-support] Error: invalid file name When Booting For the FirstTime

2013-11-23 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
Well I finally found the problem why linux would not boot: for some reason grub is assigning (hd0) to /dev/sdb. The latter is where I've installed LFS. So in grub.cfg I changed set root=(hd1,1) to set root=(hd0,1). Following the syntax in the grub.cfg in Fedora19's installation on /dev/sda, I

Re: [lfs-support] Error: invalid file name When Booting For the First Time

2013-11-23 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/23/2013 3:21 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: On 11/23/2013 01:32 PM, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: So for whatever reason, grub is not recognizing the disks. Having tried the same thing with the two other disks, /dev/sda and /dev/sdc, which grub lists above as (hd0) and (hd2), I'm at a loss. All three

[lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-11-23 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
Howdy, Now that my shiny new LFS system is more or less running, I'm trying to get all of the bits and pieces runnning. The system seems unable to find the ethernet card. The card is actually built into the mother board -- a Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411. After following the LFS book's

Re: [lfs-support] Help with Installing to UEFI Motherboard

2013-11-17 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/16/2013 8:56 PM, Geoff Swan wrote: On 17/11/2013 11:26 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: Just so I understand. You got your kernel--3.10.10 (?)--to boot from the EFI partition? And without initrd or initramfs? The answer to this question is important to me. Yes. 3.10.10. Selectable in the BIOS

Re: [lfs-support] Help with Installing to UEFI Motherboard

2013-11-17 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/16/2013 6:10 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: If I can't make any head-way in the next few days, I'm going to install a minimal ArchLinux system and try the various GRUB options. I don't think they sign their kernels--see last paragraph--and that will test the GRUB stuff. About 3 weeks ago, as

[lfs-support] Help with Installing to UEFI Motherboard

2013-11-16 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
Hi, After getting the stock LFS system installed, with an MBR type boot installation, I'm experimenting with installing to a UEFI type boot location on a brand new hard drive. I've been reading a lot of online documentation, and have tried a first-cut installation, but am not having success

Re: [lfs-support] Help with Installing to UEFI Motherboard

2013-11-16 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/16/2013 7:36 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: I think efivarfs is new in 3.10.10 CONFIG_EFIVAR_FS=(y or m) is what I recommend if you're using 3.10.10 The information I've gotten so far about setting these CONFIG variables, from Arch Linux, rodsbooks.com and other places, is summarized here,

Re: [lfs-support] Shadow

2013-11-16 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/16/2013 7:43 PM, Nathanial Jones wrote: I would love it if someone could post a link to a mirror or send me the package directly. Check your mail. Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

Re: [lfs-support] Help with Installing to UEFI Motherboard

2013-11-16 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/16/2013 8:17 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: Alan, thank you for validating my research. Let me validate yours. Those recommendations work. Good! Did you see the questions I asked you earlier? I hope you will answer them. They are important to my research. Yeah, I saw them. I'm in the process

[lfs-support] What Is The LFS Partition?

2012-11-05 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
Howdy, I've done a major reset by giving up on installing an LFS system on my old 32-bit computer, and am now installing it on a new 64-bit system. The new system now has Fedora as the host system. It's installed on /dev/sdb and I want to put LFS on a blank 256G SSD -- /dev/sda. In trying to