This is my first attempt to set up a LFS. I have used Version SVN-20121122 for this. I have just finished the book with the given instructions except following two. 1. Instead of preparing my LFS partition to be ext2 or ext3, I chose it to be ext4. 2. I didnt install LFS grub, instead I have updated grub of my host system (ubuntu 12.10).
My HDD now looks like : $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 51199999 25598976 83 Linux #LFS / ext4 /dev/sda2 * 51200000 51589119 194560 83 Linux #Ubuntu /boot ext3 /dev/sda3 51589120 56276991 2343936 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 56279038 312580095 128150529 5 Extended /dev/sda5 56279040 116824063 30272512 83 Linux #Ubuntu / ext4 /dev/sda6 116826112 312580095 97876992 83 Linux #Shared /home ext4 Part of my LFS kernel config looks like : CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y # CONFIG_EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED is not set CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y CONFIG_EXT4_FS=m CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23=y CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y # CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set # CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY is not set # CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG is not set # CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT is not set The EXT4 is compiled as kernel module. The grub meny entry in ubuntu grub looks like : When I try to go into LFS, it (I am not sure what do I mean by 'it' - grub / kernel :P) goes into panic state. The points I could extract from error messages is, Somehow system is trying to attempt and mount the '/' partition (/dev/sda1) as ext3 which is incorrect. Anyways I took a snap of my error screen when I try to boot LFS and kept it at http://ubuntuone.com/3bLEHLy31YuLisa87A6AFB and https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/E7NQ3tPJSxmb7Jq9moYlE9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page