Re: Weirdness with evdev.

2009-08-02 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 02 August 2009 20:03:40 Trent Shea wrote: > Note: Apparently if you start X :1 after building new drivers nothing gets > tested (and you look like a fool ;.) You need to kill all running servers? > bleh... > (and you look like a fool Actually, it's one of those days when everything I ty

Re: creating ext4 filesystem for a new lfs build

2009-08-02 Thread Justin P. Mattock
Ken Moffat wrote: > 2009/8/2 Justin P. Mattock: > >> Anyways as for creating ext4 and x86_64 system, I started >> yesterday, and everything seems good. >> /lib64 and /usr/lib64 seem simple enough to have the packages >> go there. but hopefully It's not to tough to make it to the xserver etc.. >

Re: Village Idot question. How do I start?

2009-08-02 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/8/2 William Estrada : > The problem with remastering is that I need to run it on a non-x86 > platform. I don't > want to run different code that what I test.  So I need to recompile the > whole system > image. A few comments. 1. Please don't top-post, and trim what you are replying to. 2.

Re: creating ext4 filesystem for a new lfs build

2009-08-02 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/8/2 Justin P. Mattock : > Anyways as for creating ext4 and x86_64 system, I started > yesterday, and everything seems good. > /lib64 and /usr/lib64 seem simple enough to have the packages > go there. but hopefully It's not to tough to make it to the xserver etc.. > > As for the build should I

Re: Village Idot question. How do I start?

2009-08-02 Thread William Estrada
Thanks for your quick response. The problem with remastering is that I need to run it on a non-x86 platform. I don't want to run different code that what I test. So I need to recompile the whole system image. This link looks promising, thanks again. RaptorX wrote: > http://www.linuxfromscrat

Re: Village Idot question. How do I start?

2009-08-02 Thread RaptorX
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/ This is the book of LFS, if you follow it completely you will create your own build. Now LFS is for learning how linux works. A lot of people have told me that repeatedly. I guess in your case it would be easier to remaster an already built distro

Village Idot question. How do I start?

2009-08-02 Thread William Estrada
Hi group, Just starting with LFS and I am confused about how to get started. There is a ton of docs. I have read most of them but can find the starting point. What I want to do is: 1. Build a custom image of linux simular to OpenWRT or TinyCore. 2. Be able to test the image on my lapt

Re: Kenel Panic

2009-08-02 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 02 August 2009 12:14:02 Trent Shea wrote: > You're right GRUB looks fine. I've never had to alter grub/menu.lst with > usb devices connected, but you never know. I've run into very similar > errors when root=uuid and switching to root=/dev/blah has fixed it. I just tried to booting with

Re: Kenel Panic

2009-08-02 Thread RaptorX
I just double checked my kernel config and I do have Serial ATA and Parallel ATA enabled and not as a module, so my SATA disk should have its drivers loaded. On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:42 PM, RaptorX wrote: > not really look at my previous post (we cross-posted here.) > > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at

Re: Kenel Panic

2009-08-02 Thread RaptorX
not really look at my previous post (we cross-posted here.) On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Trent Shea wrote: > On Sunday 02 August 2009 11:36:12 Trent Shea wrote: > > Those should probably be sdb? > > > > Trent. > Actually, looking back are you trying to boot off the usb drive? If so, > you'll

Re: Kenel Panic

2009-08-02 Thread RaptorX
good question... well look, first, BIOS is setup to load my usb first, Im using EXTLINUX there and I have an option to boot from HDD... in Slax, Slackware, and lilo all of them are *sda[1-4]* grub is the only one who i had to make some changes because it took my usb as hd0. I actually can boot

Re: Kenel Panic

2009-08-02 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 02 August 2009 11:36:12 Trent Shea wrote: > Those should probably be sdb? > > Trent. Actually, looking back are you trying to boot off the usb drive? If so, you'll probably need to compile all the usb support into the kernel too. Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Kenel Panic

2009-08-02 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 02 August 2009 11:27:55 RaptorX wrote: > > title Slackware > > root (hd1,1) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-custom root=/dev/sda2 > > > > title LFS 6.4 > > root (hd1,3) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4 Those should probably be sdb? Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Kenel Panic

2009-08-02 Thread RaptorX
Thanks Simon for pointing out, I will check this afternoon if booting right now doesnt work. -- [Temet Nosce] +++ The ideas-about-reality are mistakenly labeled "reality" and usually people are forever perplexed by the fact that other people, especially other cultures, see "reality" di

Re: Kenel Panic

2009-08-02 Thread RaptorX
Thanks guys for all the answers! I enabled EXT2 and still got the Kernel Panic, but this time i did take the time to note down the error, here is what i got: md: Autodetecting RAID arrays > md: Sanned 0 and added 0 devices > md: Autorun ... > md: ... Autorun DONE > > Root-NFS: no NFS server a

Re: creating ext4 filesystem for a new lfs build

2009-08-02 Thread Justin P. Mattock
Simon Geard wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 02:54 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> Pah! Why do you waste space on /boot iwth a journal ? >> ext2 for /boot! Also, swap could be optional if you >> have enough real memory and don't intend to suspend >> to disk. >> > > Can't speak for Justin,

Re: creating ext4 filesystem for a new lfs build

2009-08-02 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 02:54 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > Pah! Why do you waste space on /boot iwth a journal ? > ext2 for /boot! Also, swap could be optional if you > have enough real memory and don't intend to suspend > to disk. Can't speak for Justin, but I have roughly half a terabyte of disk i

Re: Kenel Panic

2009-08-02 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 01:43 +0200, RaptorX wrote: > I suspect it has something to do with the file system, maybe my kernel > is not supporting it since I put reiserfs, xfs and jfs as modules in > the kernel! From your other post, it looks like the filesystem is fine - the disk is ext3, and you've

Re: Assembler messages

2009-08-02 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 18:45 +0530, mahesh kumar wrote: > Fatal error: can't create tree-vrp.o: Stale NFS file handle Are you working with either a network filesystem, or a virtual machine? I've only ever seen that kind of error in those two contexts - either an NFS mount suffering network issues,

Re: Assembler messages (Michael Tsang)

2009-08-02 Thread Michael Tsang
On Sunday 02 August 2009 15:27:29 mahesh kumar wrote: > i don knw that, but i have the internet connection while i'm doing the > LFS...! so, can you explain how to disable that, and give me the proper > solution for my problem! > > thanks for the reply > > regards, NFS (network file system) en

Re: Assembler messages (Michael Tsang)

2009-08-02 Thread mahesh kumar
i don knw that, but i have the internet connection while i'm doing the LFS...! so, can you explain how to disable that, and give me the proper solution for my problem! thanks for the reply regards, -- mahesh kumar -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.l