Re: Restoring grub on MBR

2008-09-23 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
Hi Randir, yes I mean a disket and floppy drive. I have yesterday seen from chapter 8.4 that dd if=/boot/grub/stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 dd if=/boot/grub/stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1 may be helpful as well. You can give it a try as well. Wolfgang Well the easiest

Re: help with net-interface

2008-06-19 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2008/6/18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: thanks for your reply below, but I recompiled the kernel ( I was and still am) using a plain realtek netcard (enabledin the kernel) and the problem persists. I cannot even do an ifconfig (the loopback address is not returned) I have a hunch

Re: help with net-interface

2008-06-18 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
eth0 is given by the kernel. You are probably missing the necessary device driver from the kernel -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: QEmu on a LFS system ?

2008-04-10 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2008/4/10 Chris Staub [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jean-Sebastien wrote: Hi all ! I wanna know how I can install (and all of it dependencies) the QEmu and QEmu Launcher. If someone has already installed it, please contact me at : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Good luck to

Re: VirtualBox on a LFS ?

2008-04-03 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2008/4/2, Jean-Sebastien [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, I want to know how to install the VirtualBox on my LFS other by the source.. Can I install a package manager like rpm or deb (apt-get) to install it easilly ? Because I'm trying to install it from the sources and many, manu, many

Re: help with udev problem

2008-04-03 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2008/4/2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Greetings,On Wednesday 02 April 2008 09:30:12 you wrote: You probably forgot to mount /dev/pts. Add to /etc/fstab: devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=4,mode=620 0 0 /dev/shm seems to be automatically created on my system. Maybe you missed a

Re: help with udev problem

2008-04-02 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2008/4/2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Greetings,I seem to have a problem with udev with an LFS build I did in January. I used kernel-2.6.23.12 (then development lfs).I get to boot prompt but the booting reports:mount: mount point /dev/pts does not existmount: mount point

Re: successful build with gcc 4.3.0

2008-03-31 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2008/3/30, cunnilinux himself [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hello community, i just want to report about successful build of lfs system with new gcc-4.3.0 for those who might be interesred. i still don't know how it all will go on with blfs stuff, but for the moment i have basic multilib x86-64

Make -j speed record

2008-02-20 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
Ok, this is not really support related but just an observation. I use scripts to build my LFS boxes. This makes it easier to measure how long it takes to install LFS (an of course reduces rsi ;). I've noticed my Athlon XP 2600 has become pretty slow compiling newer LFS versions. The use of make -j

Re: Various Issues Followup

2008-02-12 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
Maybe one of these will help: 1. Back up .ssh from the old machine and try again. Maybe the old key is still cached on the old machine. 2. Remove all .ssh directories 3. Is it possible to ssh to localhost, e.g. on the new machine ssh -v localhost? 4. You could try recompiling ssh without tcp

Re: Various Issues Followup

2008-02-12 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2008/2/12, Mark Olbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Oops, forgot to include this: When attempting to connect to ssh on the new LFS system (from the old system): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mark# ssh -v -l mark wiggle_butt OpenSSH_4.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006 debug1: Reading configuration data

Re: Glibc installation failing

2008-02-11 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2008/2/11, Sharif Oerton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I'm a bit of a newbie - just so you know. I love the idea of LFS and decided to give it a go. I'm up to here: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/glibc.html. Everything seems to work fine for a while (no unaccounted

Re: compilation error for inetutils-1.5 in LFS-6.3

2008-01-28 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
A quick google showed that this problem is probaby becuase you use a wrong ncurses version. Try down-/upgrading ncurses and see if that helps! 2008/1/28, Justin O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello. I'm building an LFS 6.3. This is my first LFS (well, not really, I tried building one a couple

Re: bsd-style init scripts and udev

2008-01-03 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2008/1/3, zux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi i have successfully compiled linux from scratch, but i can't boot it because the bsd-style init script hint said nothing about udev :( and my experiment on ajusting slackware boot scripts were unsuccessful. everything else works, the kernel boots, but udev

Re: ncurses fails to compile

2008-01-01 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2008/1/1, zux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: on chapter 5.13. Ncurses-5.6 the make command gives this output: lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/ncurses-5.6$ make cd man make DESTDIR= all make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/ncurses-5.6/man' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving

Re: I need some kernel configuration help.

2007-12-13 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
and that also caused a kernel panic. SO I just spent 2 days building from the LFS-livecd ( I am kinda sad that the LiveCD ISO is still at verison LFS 6.2) and still am getting a kernel panic. -Original Message- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 16:43:57 +0100 From: Wilco Beekhuizen [EMAIL

Re: I need some kernel configuration help.

2007-12-08 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
It seems like this is your sata controller: ATI Technologies Inc 4379 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80) If you don't know what kernel driver you need you could: - Use google - Include every SATA adapter and check dmesg which one is really used then recompile with the one you really need! Good luck!

Re: su - lfs vs su lfs - su starts subshell, useless for automating in scripts..

2007-12-03 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
The easiest and probably best thing to do (I do it ;) is to use something like this in .bashrc for the lfs user: cd $LFS/sources sh stage1-static.sh 21 | tee /mnt/lfs/sources/logs/detailed-stage1.log exit Of course your scripts need to be in $LFS/sources/[somewhere]. After the lfs user

Re: Install LFS on Vortex86SX (486SX core)

2007-12-03 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2007/12/3, Andreas Hofer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I want to install LFS on a Vortex86SX controller produced by the taiwanese company DMP. Its instruction set is claimed to be 100% compatible to i486SX, thus lacking floating point instructions and anything beyond a 486. First thing I

Re: su - lfs vs su lfs - su starts subshell, useless for automating in scripts..

2007-12-01 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2007/11/27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I am building my own little automated LFS install script in Bash. Basically its a copy-paste job from LFS book, of course, with minor corrections for function. One of the things i find difficult to script is a nice (read pretty) way

Re: System.map not found..... I think

2007-10-11 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
Well this is strange since I don't get this error (or warning) and I don't have /boot/System.map or anything like that. Maybe because I am using BSD scripts? Don't know but does adding system.map fix things for you? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: System.map not found..... I think

2007-10-08 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2007/10/7, Walter Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Looking over the logs for my new LFS system I noticed something odd. Right at the very top after klogd is started are these two lines: Oct 6 16:56:13 lbc1211 kernel: Cannot find map file. Oct 6 16:56:13 lbc1211 kernel: No module symbols

Re: how can i make bootable my lfs system???

2007-04-05 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2007/4/5, Sherzod Rakh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: how can i make bootable my lfs system??? i want burn my lfs system to disk and make this system bootable from cd (make live cd) does anybody know how to do it??? Thanks beforehand -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

No tab completion with grub

2007-04-01 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
Tab completion in grub doesn't work for me. Is this a known problem for anyone? Hitting TAB just gives a number of spaces. Also backspace gives an escape sequence instead of doing backspace. This happens in text-mode, X, with the linux terminal, xterm, aterm, etc. I have no (at least found) other

Re: LFS 6.2 warns about 2.6.17 or newer kernels

2007-03-15 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2007/3/14, Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 3/14/07, Wilco Beekhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [sarcasm] I can remember the good old days with static device nodes where /dev was the last thing that could cause a problem when booting a new kernel... [/sarcasm] No one is being

Re: another Xorg-7.1 question

2007-03-15 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2007/3/14, Arden [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mar 14, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Arden wrote: I found I needed to upgrade X so I went and installed xorg-7.1. Startx works fine but I can't get fluxbox to work. It aborts with: Failed to read: session.tab Failed to read: session.pad about 14 lines like