Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-19 Thread Richard Melville
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: If you are using a GUID Partition Table (GPT), then you don't need a initrd. Assuming /boot is on a partition by itself, try: menuentry LFS Dev, Linux 3.10.32-sm01 { linux /vmlinuz-3.10.32-sm01 \

Re: [blfs-support] ntp and libcap

2014-03-19 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Em 18-03-2014 14:49, Pol Vangheluwe escreveu: I am building ntp-4.2.6p5, following the instructions of BLFS-7.4 on a LFS-7.2 system. I installed libcap2-2.22 as a required dependency but the make of ntp fails with: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcap The reason seems to be that the libcap

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-19 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Richard Melville richard.melvill...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: If you are using a GUID Partition Table (GPT), then you don't need a initrd. Assuming /boot is on a partition by itself,

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-19 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:08:45 +0100 Alexey Orishko alexey.oris...@gmail.com wrote: I can't boot BLFS 7.4 system (Intel Atom 32-bit) from USB stick on some motherboards, but I can do it on the same motherboard type with different (old) BIOS version. I've read BIOS release notes and found

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-19 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Aleksandar Kuktin akuk...@gmail.com wrote: Returning back to the root of the problem, can you give a bit more light? If you have an USB with ext2 (or whatever), you can not boot a new BIOS, correct? If you have an USB with FAT32, and with the exact same

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-19 Thread alex lupu
Hi Alexey (and greetings to all the other current and future USB stick contributors), I've noticed a keen interest in booting off an USB stick (10+ posts and counting) so maybe my humble experience with the subject could be of help. REQUIREMENTS (at the time - a year ago): 1. A Knoppix release

[blfs-support] garbled text

2014-03-19 Thread Andrew Warshall
Hi- Been using LFS/BLFS as my main system for almost 8 years now, recently did my 6th build; so thanks! This one has the feature that text on-screen sometimes (infrequently) becomes garbled to the point of illegibility. I can make it come back (usually) by forcing the program to

[blfs-support] rmdir: failed to remove '/usr/include/freetype2/freetype/config': No such file or directory - BLFS 7.5

2014-03-19 Thread rhubarbpieguy
I receive rmdir: failed to remove '/usr/include/freetype2/freetype/config': No such file or directory when compiling freetype. I have /usr/include/freetype2/config but not /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/config. I assume I've something wrong (which isn't much of a stretch), but I've removed

Re: [blfs-support] rmdir: failed to remove '/usr/include/freetype2/freetype/config': No such file or directory - BLFS 7.5

2014-03-19 Thread Armin K.
On 03/19/2014 10:20 PM, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: I receive rmdir: failed to remove '/usr/include/freetype2/freetype/config': No such file or directory when compiling freetype. I have /usr/include/freetype2/config but not /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/config. I assume I've

Re: [blfs-support] ntp and libcap

2014-03-19 Thread Pol Vangheluwe
Op 19-mrt.-2014, om 14:47 heeft Fernando de Oliveira fam...@yahoo.com.br het volgende geschreven: (…) The installation procedure for libcap is a bit special (no “config” step): is there somewhere a path directive missing? I cannot understand how they got installed at root. Have just

Re: [blfs-support] garbled text

2014-03-19 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 04:34:40PM -0400, Andrew Warshall wrote: Hi- Been using LFS/BLFS as my main system for almost 8 years now, recently did my 6th build; so thanks! This one has the feature that text on-screen sometimes (infrequently) becomes garbled to the point of

Re: [blfs-support] garbled text

2014-03-19 Thread Andrew Warshall
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:35:01 + Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 04:34:40PM -0400, Andrew Warshall wrote: Hi- Been using LFS/BLFS as my main system for almost 8 years now,recently did my 6th build; so thanks! This one has the featurethat text

Re: [blfs-support] garbled text

2014-03-19 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:53:49PM -0400, Andrew Warshall wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:35:01 + Hi- The versions are mostly current. (I built basically the svn, and it was within the last month.) Cairo is 1.12.16. One thing that isn't so current is xorg; I basically built a