Re: grub errors and read-only

2005-08-06 Thread Donal Farrell
Thanks Ken, this seems to have worked. suse reports on its boot that it can't find /etc/mtab, also, there is a fatal X server error, as it can find the screen(s), but none are usable I tried a startx, an int 5, etc., but no luck. Also, I'm using an nvidia driver (from about last march) and I'm

grub errors and read-only

2005-08-05 Thread Donal Farrell
Hi there. I'm having serious problems since I put FC4 on my system which already has (B)LFS 6.0 and SuSE 9.1. I can't boot into SuSE or LFS at present. Actually, FC4 might not be the problem. I tried to put Sarge on /dev/hda which was a primary partition I made. I'm using the linuxformat dvd, so I

eth0 not available

2005-04-27 Thread Donal Farrell
Hi there. I'm trying to configure my network card to access the college LAN, and out to the internet. I have set up /etc/hosts and the ipv4 scripts with all the correct addresses for my domain, but at boot time it complains that the device eth0 does not exist. ifconfig gives a valid output, but

Re: LFS-6.0 Chapter5.6 Linux-Libc-Headers-2.6.8.1

2005-04-21 Thread Donal Farrell
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 03:54, Joel Miller wrote: Georges Chalhoub wrote: The manual says: cp -R include/asm-i386 /tools/include/asm cp -R include/linux /tools/include What is the full path of the include/asm-i386 ? Thank you Try bzip2 -cd Linux-Libc-Headers-2.6.8.1 | tar xvf - cd

mouse detection and nvidia

2005-04-18 Thread Donal Farrell
-- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

/dev/input/mice NVidia

2005-04-15 Thread Donal Farrell
Hi there. I'm having a little trouble with Xorg-6.8.2 in BLFS 6.0 My mouse is not detected ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse and there is no /dev/mouse either. I am sticking rigidly to the book and used /dev/input/mice Also, something that could be part of the problem is the Nvidia drivers ( I

/dev/input/mice NVidia

2005-04-15 Thread Donal Farrell
Hi there. I'm having a little trouble with Xorg-6.8.2 in BLFS 6.0 My mouse is not detected ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse and there is no /dev/mouse either. I am sticking rigidly to the book and used /dev/input/mice Also, something that could be part of the problem is the Nvidia drivers ( I

Re: /dev/input/mice NVidia

2005-04-15 Thread Donal Farrell
that kernel module. Regards, Donal On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 17:25, Andrew Benton wrote: Donal Farrell wrote: Hi there. I'm having a little trouble with Xorg-6.8.2 in BLFS 6.0 My mouse is not detected ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse and there is no /dev/mouse either. I am sticking rigidly

Missing line in fstab

2005-04-11 Thread Donal Farrell
Hi there, I'm just finished LFS and am trying to start BLFS. The problem I have is that I can't mount my cdrom drive in LFS, it complains aout bad superblock, and that it cant find the mount-point in eu=ither fsatb or mtab. Here's my complete /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 / reiserfs

Re: Missing line in fstab

2005-04-11 Thread Donal Farrell
Actually when I ran /etc/rc.d/init.d/udev start I got nothing which probably means I've done something wrong? It's LFS 6.0 also by the way. I did recompile the kernel to try add support for older cdrom filesystems (MS Joliet, etc) before, if that makes any difference? --

Re: Missing line in fstab

2005-04-11 Thread Donal Farrell
OK when I do /etc/.../udev start from inside chroot environment, it populates /dev with the device nodes and the when I do ls, I have everything like I have in SuSE, however this did not work inside the actual LFS build -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: Missing line in fstab

2005-04-11 Thread Donal Farrell
problem?? Regards On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 20:41, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Donal Farrell wrote: Actually when I ran /etc/rc.d/init.d/udev start I got nothing which probably means I've done something wrong? It's LFS 6.0 also by the way. I did recompile the kernel to try add support for older cdrom

grub boot problems

2005-03-23 Thread Donal Farrell
hi guys, i having problems with grub for LFS 6.0 My LFS system fstab file is: #Begin /etc/fstab # #FilesystemMount-Point TypeOptions Dump fsck-Order # /dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda6 swap swappri=42 0

udev install problem, chapter 6

2005-03-22 Thread Donal Farrell
hi guys, i'm getting the following error with udev-030 in LFS 6.0 chapter 6.57 root:/sources/udev-030# make udevdir=/dev install /usr/bin/install -c -d /etc/udev/rules.d /usr/bin/install -c -d /etc/udev/permissions.d /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 -D udev.8 /usr/share/man/man8/udev.8 /usr/bin/install

Re: udev install problem, chapter 6

2005-03-22 Thread Donal Farrell
Thanks Edwin, will do that On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 17:28, Edwin van Vliet wrote: Donal Farrell wrote: hi guys, i'm getting the following error with udev-030 in LFS 6.0 chapter 6.57 root:/sources/udev-030# make udevdir=/dev install /usr/bin/install -c -d /etc/udev/rules.d /usr

perl compilation problem

2005-03-18 Thread Donal Farrell
hi guys. i'm using LFS-6.0 and my problem is in chapter 5.34 (Perl 5.8.5) Everything has worked fine up to now. (Host system is SuSE9.1Pro) I get the following error makefile: line 917 *** missing seperator. stop i tried editing line 917 which only had a '0' on the line by commenting it out. I

gcc chapter 6 time_dot_h problem

2005-03-18 Thread Donal Farrell
hello there. i'm at part 6.14 which is the final installation of GCC. I am getting the following error from make continuously: In file included from ../../gcc-3.4.1/gcc/crtstuff.c:62: ../../gcc-3.4.1/gcc/tsystem.h:79:19: stdio.h: No such file or directory ../../gcc-3.4.1/gcc/tsystem.h:82:23: