On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 04:57:44PM +0800, chen wang wrote: > 2012/8/19 Emerson Yesupatham <[email protected]> > > > Hi Team, > > > > I could successfully finish all the chapters in BOOK-7.0 and able to boot > > my LFS successfully !!. > > I have registerd myself as LFS user ! Thanks for all your support. > > > > I am planning to use the same LFS-7.0 as base for further work may be BLFS > > and CLFS. I would like to explain my current system configuration to make > > sure everything is fine and I can go ahead continuing on the same > > confiuguration. > > > > My host PC is Fedora 14. > > It has two Hard disks. > > /dev/sda has Fedora 14 (/dev/sda1 is /boot partition in Host PC) > > /dev/sdb has LFS-7.0 (/dev/sdb3 is / partition (LFS is located)) > > > > I can say I have skipped Section 8.4 (Using Grub to Set up the Boot > > process), I mean I have modified the host PC's GRUB boot loaders' menu.lst > > file to include my newly built lfs kernel. Host PC's menu.lst/grub.conf > > looks like below:
[ trimmed - it works, so not interesting :-) ] > > > > Now question is, Can I use this type configuration (that is Two hard > > disks) to proceed with BLFS/CLFS? will it totally block any where in the > > BLFS /CLFS? > > > > My Action items currently: > > I am currently going through the "dmesg" logs of my newly booted LFS > > system. I have verified Keyboard/Console/HDDs are working in the new LFS > > system. Also I am planning to revist the book 7.0 chapters again to get > > better understanding. > > I will get back to you in case of doubts. > > > > Thanks again for all your support. > > > > > > I have the same question as you. Hope somebody could give us a little help. > ^_^ Spreading the filesystems across more than one disk is not unusual. I'll be very surprised if anything in BLFS (or cblfs) has problems. For clfs I can't really comment (haven't built it for a few years), but if you are intending to use clfs to build a 64-bit system from 32-bit you will need to do similar workarounds to add the new temporary system to the old menu.lst, and not install a new bootloader. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
