Re: Hit a Speed Bumps with Grub 2

2010-07-20 Thread linux fan
On 7/20/10, Dan McGhee beesn...@grm.net wrote: Since my post of just an hour ago, my options have been reduced to one--write to the MBR. One of the files needed to make a completely independent bootable grub disk is stage2_eltorito, which is not present in /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/, or anywhere

Re: Hit a Speed Bumps with Grub 2

2010-07-21 Thread linux fan
On 7/21/10, Dan McGhee beesn...@grm.net wrote: On 07/21/2010 06:08 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: On 21/07/10 01:25, Dan McGhee wrote: It's nagging me that currently grub sees nothing but my new LFS system. Grub2 supposedly searches for one of the specific kernel name prefixes of: vmlinuz vmlinux

Re: 2 grubs

2010-08-09 Thread linux fan
On 8/9/10, Alberto Hernando pajaro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Is it possible to have 2 grubs running in a same computer? My idea is to have the first grub in mbr, with the main OS, and an entry pointing to the second grub, installed in a partition with the LFS and all its options. I could do

Re: 2 grubs

2010-08-09 Thread linux fan
On 8/9/10, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote: configfile (hd0,4)/boot/grub/grub.cfg For grub2, before that may also be needed: insmod configfile -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: Error at 7.13. Configuring the network Script ( Book 6.6 )

2010-08-14 Thread linux fan
On 8/13/10, Suraj Linux suraj.embedded.li...@gmail.com wrote: add_matching_files: unable to open '/dev/.udev/rules.d': No such file or directory Without knowing anything, I wonder why '/dev/.udev/rules.d' is missing. What creates it? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread linux fan
The live cd has the user jhalfs which is already set up in sudoers (sudo). Once booted and at the shell, you can become jhalfs with: su - jhalfs Then can get into graphical desktop with: startxfce4 In the instructions that reference user lfs, substitute the user jhalfs I think that may work ok.

Stable 6.6, not 6.7 ?

2010-09-21 Thread linux fan
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/ I'm confused that LFS-6.7 is out (I thought), and when I read stable, it says 6.6. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Stable 6.6, not 6.7 ?

2010-09-21 Thread linux fan
On 9/21/10, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I't possible your browser is remembering the old page. Try doing a refresh. All the lfs 'stable' entries are point to 6.7: Refresh fixed it. Thanks -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: SVN 20100923 - gcc-4.5.1, pass 1, won't compile

2010-10-10 Thread linux fan
On 10/9/10, Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: a jumble of data. See the attached script; it can give folks a clean, tidy Oops, I got FAIL: /usr/bin/find not found. Need findutils version=4.1.20 My find is winding up in /bin --

Re: Grub2 and ext4

2010-10-13 Thread linux fan
This one said kernel must have ext4 support. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/01/msg00190.html -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: glibc: 16.9 SBU, really?

2010-10-15 Thread linux fan
On 10/15/10, Alberto Hernando pajaro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Well, the untarred files have timestamps of months ago, when the developers made the package. Even untarring with -m and getting the current time makes no difference. But I can post the part where it repeats: The untarred

Re: glibc: 16.9 SBU, really?

2010-10-15 Thread linux fan
Also, not forgetting to remove any previously unpacked glibc sources and glibc-build directories before unpacking with tar. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Grub2 and ext4

2010-10-16 Thread linux fan
On 10/16/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:03:36 +0200 Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote: Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote: The linux statement on the other hand tells grub where the kernel resides and were root of the partition to be

Re: Grub2 and ext4

2010-10-19 Thread linux fan
On 10/19/10, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote: In my case - I am not excluding errors from my part-, I got, as I wrote, an error message not an assigment If one is brave and patient, it can be very much fun to get to the grub2 command line and experiment. set pager=1 turns the

Re: Grub2 and ext4

2010-10-19 Thread linux fan
On 10/19/10, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote: OK. I did grub-config. But as I am always a little afraid of touching MBR, I did not make grub-install. This tourned to be a catastrophe. I got a grub pront and nothing more. I am always afraid of touching MBR and would almost

Re: glibc: 16.9 SBU, really?

2010-10-20 Thread linux fan
Sometimes I try the 20-second fix-all: Shutdown. Turn off all power to all hardware. After 20 seconds, power-up and boot. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: glibc: 16.9 SBU, really?

2010-10-20 Thread linux fan
On 10/20/10, Mike Hollis zzf...@embarqmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 03:18:26PM -0400, linux fan wrote: Sometimes I try the 20-second fix-all: Shutdown. Turn off all power to all hardware. After 20 seconds, power-up and boot. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs

Re: AllowEmtpyInput

2010-10-28 Thread linux fan
On 10/28/10, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Bruce, I know, this issue is a little the field of BLFS. I am trying to get xorg working, a not to difficult task in former times. Now, testing the xorg.conf.new, I get a screen, with a dirty X on it, but no way to close it

Re: AllowEmtpyInput

2010-10-29 Thread linux fan
On 10/28/10, Stuart Stegall kel...@keltor.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Bruce, I know, this issue is a little the field of BLFS. I am trying to get xorg working, a not to difficult task in former times. Now, testing the

Re: AllowEmtpyInput

2010-10-30 Thread linux fan
On 10/29/10, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/29/10, Ken Moffat k...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Looking at what I'm using on the desktop, I see I added the following to ~/.xinitrc in January to reinstate the old behaviour for xorg-7.4. Apologies for missing this last night

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