On Saturday 27 October 2007 06:28, Gerald Sherette wrote:
> First I want thank everyone involved with LFS/BLFS for their hard work.
> These projects are excellent.
>
> I just finished building LFS 6.3 using the LiveCD x86-63-r2052 as host.
> I cut and pasted the instructions on from the LFS book on the CD.
> Everything seemed to go smoothly until I booted into my new LFS.
>
> 1) The first thing I noticed was that "Setting up the Linux console "
> gave a red FAIL instead of a green OK.
>
> 2) Second, instead of ending with the expected
> Host login:
> (where Host is the name of my machine)
> I get
> Host login: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 <sda5>
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
>
> Pressing return, gave the "Host login: " prompt on the next line. I was
> then able to login normally and everything seemed to work. (This box does
> have an external USB hard drive plugged in. Of course unplugging it gets
> rid of the extra lines but one of my main objectives in doing this build
> was to learn enough to eventually build and boot from an external drive.)
>
> 1) In investigating the "Setting up Linux console" problem, the line
>
> loadkeys ${KEYMAP} >/dev/null 2>&1
>
> in the bootscript init.d/console appeared to give the FAIL.
> I replaced it with
>
> #loadkeys ${KEYMAP} >/dev/null 2>&1
> loadkeys -d >/dev/null 2>&1
>
> to get the default for ${KEYMAP}. Its prior value was "en".
> I now get OK as the result but haven't a clue about what I did wrong.
>
> 2) As to the late arriving USB/SCSI messages, I have tried various
> kernel configurations and boot options with no luck. The
> CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC and CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN sound revelant and though
> they change timing of message arrival, the messages still show up after the
> first Host login: Any suggestions of something to try would be greatly
> appreciated.
Its only a message that your USB subsystem has found a harddisk and was
successfull when reading the partition table. You are in luck, you now can
mount it! ;-)
> Please help while I still have some hair left.
Extend your kernel command line with "loglevel=1" and/or "quiet". This will
stop many kernel messages to become visible on the console.
Hope it helps.
Juergen
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