Hi there,
I succesfully created an LFS system once and thought I'd create an HLFS
system next, while incorporating a few LFS hints. Unfortunately, I cannot
boot the system at the start of chapter 8.
I would be grateful for a few pointers.
The hints I have incorporated are:
-
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/more_control_and_pkg_man.txt
(package user style installation)
- http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/eswap.txt
(encrypting swap file)
I'll explain the "I can not boot" error a bit more. I installed grub as
usual and am using udev etcetera.
I deviated from the HLFS book at the end of chapter 7 though. I haven't
installed grub into the MBR record of the single IDE harddrive, since from
within the Grub console I was unable to find the harddrive with "root
(hd0,1)".
Error 21: Selected disk does not exist
This is likely due to the fact that I have only two device files in /dev at
the end of HLFS chapter 7; console and null. (Grub is immediately looking
for /dev/hda2 right?)
So I went and used the Grub installation from the Knoppix 4.0 system that I
was using to build HLFS and added the HLFS partition and kernel info to its
/boot/grub/menu.lst and left it at that. I rebooted and selected the HLFS
option from the grub menu. In the blink of a second I can see (probably)
the three grub lines flashing by, after which the screen goes black and I
have to do a hard reboot, because nothing is happening.
When I manually go through the grub options one by one, the line root
(hd0,1) is accepted and returned is the fact that an ext filesystem is
found there, which my HLFS is. But the kernel will not load.
Aside from incorporating the mentioned hints I haven't consciously deviated
from the HLFS book.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Tilde.
I guess I am still fairly Linux green. I managed to get some output from the
kernel that was actually being loaded. It halted with an oops, of course.
After repeatedly removing stuff from the kernel I managed to boot the
system. Unfortunately, the thing which was causing the oops ( showed up in
the error every time) was the frandom replacement of urandom.
Frandom is actually a plus and added into HLFS with some effort, so this
being the cause of the error is not good. I guess it is fair to assume I
deviated from the HLFS book somehow with one of the three random patches. Is
there anything I can do to check whether the frandom patches in the system
have been applied? Perhaps a simple testrandom.c?
The system I am building on, a Via SP13000 with a C5 Nehemiah core, already
has a proper hardware random number generator. I wonder whether frandom and
the hardware generator are capable of living next to another.
Thanks in advance,
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