Re: [lfs-support] Redoing chapter 6

2012-08-31 Thread Mustafa Qasim
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Oshadha Gunawardena oshadha.ro...@gmail.com wrote: I worked.! On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: As chroot you are referring to the system setting up at the beginning of the

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Bootup Sequence/etc

2012-08-31 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/30/2012 09:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Baho Utot wrote: On 08/30/2012 08:41 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Baho Utot wrote: On 08/30/2012 05:28 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: /run was in place so the only thing missing, was it was on the root file system on the ssd, it just was not mounted in tmpfs.

[lfs-support] Error while compiling binutils

2012-08-31 Thread Stefano Di Martino
Hi everyone! I'm new to LFS and just a beginner. While compiling Binutils-2.2 Pass 2 I've got following error message: checking for type equivalent to int8_t... configure: error: no 8-bit type, please report a bug This bug is open since 2010! http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45084

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-08-31 Thread Mikie
3. Try booting, and watch to see if you can spot the first error message from the bootscripts. When that appears, the old Ctrl-S (to stop the console scrolling) might work. If you can read the gist of the message, and what script it came from, you will be on the way towards sorting it out.

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-08-31 Thread Mikie
Another thing I see is that when I boot to a live CD and run fdisk I tried to delete the 2nd partition (host system) to see if it was the issue. Last build of LFS I was able to boot no problem and I had deleted /dev/sda2 at the end of chapter 9 ... but this time I didn't. But back to what I was

Re: [blfs-support] /dev/pts won't mount at boot...

2012-08-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael C. Robinson wrote: What I like is that my LFS build is tighter than a typical commercial Linux distribution. That is becoming less and less the case though as I try to satisfy all of the dependencies for X. My /usr partition is mushrooming to 5+ gigs. I don't really know what you

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-08-31 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/31/2012 11:53 AM, Mikie wrote: Another thing I see is that when I boot to a live CD and run fdisk I tried to delete the 2nd partition (host system) to see if it was the issue. Last build of LFS I was able to boot no problem and I had deleted /dev/sda2 at the end of chapter 9 ... but

Re: [lfs-support] Error while compiling binutils

2012-08-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Stefano Di Martino wrote: Hi everyone! I'm new to LFS and just a beginner. While compiling Binutils-2.2 Pass 2 I've got following error message: checking for type equivalent to int8_t... configure: error: no 8-bit type, please report a bug This bug is open since 2010!

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-08-31 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 03:19:16PM +, Mikie wrote: CTRL s did not work but scroll lock did (go figure). Thanks - _I've_ learned something ;) I see lots of Read only file systems ... no such file or directory for everything it trys to access. I see this on /dev/sro

Re: [lfs-support] Error while compiling binutils

2012-08-31 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:14:53AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Stefano Di Martino wrote: Hi everyone! I'm new to LFS and just a beginner. While compiling Binutils-2.2 Pass 2 I've got following error message: checking for type equivalent to int8_t... configure: error: no 8-bit type,

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-08-31 Thread Mikie
A last thought : if you didn't build the correct disk drivers into* the kernel (NOT as modules), that can also cause this sort of problem. This is where the a Live CD can be useful: they build everything as modules, using an initrd, so 'lsmod' will tell you which modules were actually

Re: [lfs-support] Error while compiling binutils

2012-08-31 Thread Stefano Di Martino
Am 31.08.2012 18:45, schrieb Ken Moffat: 1. For everything, use freshly untarred source, and (where used) a fresh -build directory. Using -pass1 source/build directories for -pass2 (or in chapter 6) can cause weird failures. Hi Ken, you're right! I forgot to delete the old directories. Now it

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-08-31 Thread Mikie
Tried and Tried but could not stop the display during boot so ... I took a vid: http://www.mikienet.com/linux/VID_20120831_150531.3gp at 14 seconds it says: mount: unknown filesystem type 'devtmpfs' ln: failed to create symbolic link '/dev/shm': Read Only file system cp: cannot remove

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-08-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mikie wrote: Tried and Tried but could not stop the display during boot so ... mount: unknown filesystem type 'devtmpfs' Kernel configuration: # # Generic Driver Options # ... CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-08-31 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 8/31/2012 3:32 PM, Mikie wrote: Tried and Tried but could not stop the display during boot so ... I took a vid: http://www.mikienet.com/linux/VID_20120831_150531.3gp at 14 seconds it says: mount: unknown filesystem type 'devtmpfs' ln: failed to create symbolic link '/dev/shm': Read

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-08-31 Thread Mikie
I will redo once more (4th attemp ... only the 1st booted succesfuly) and pay particular attention to kernel config ... devtmpfs. ... but I am using the same script I made with few changes: http://www.mikienet.com/linux/lfs.htm So I don't know why this has started to happen. Thanks. --

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-08-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mikie wrote: I will redo once more (4th attemp ... only the 1st booted succesfuly) and pay particular attention to kernel config ... devtmpfs. ... but I am using the same script I made with few changes: http://www.mikienet.com/linux/lfs.htm So I don't know why this has started to happen.

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-08-31 Thread William Harrington
On Aug 31, 2012, at 16:17 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Mikie wrote: I will redo once more (4th attemp ... only the 1st booted succesfuly) and pay particular attention to kernel config ... devtmpfs. ... but I am using the same script I made with few changes: http://www.mikienet.com/linux/lfs.htm

Re: [lfs-support] Boot message log location

2012-08-31 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 07:43:22PM +, Mikie wrote: A last thought : if you didn't build the correct disk drivers into* the kernel (NOT as modules), that can also cause this sort of problem. This is where the a Live CD can be useful: they build everything as modules, using an initrd, so

[lfs-support] chapter 8.4 using grub

2012-08-31 Thread Garrett Gaston
According to the LFS book I'M done but when I rebooted the computer my host Debian system is the only thing starting up or listed in the boot window. I noticed LFS also gave a link on page 8.4 xorriso, that is required for running the commands on the using grub page, that link is broken. This

Re: [lfs-support] chapter 8.4 using grub

2012-08-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: According to the LFS book I'M done but when I rebooted the computer my host Debian system is the only thing starting up or listed in the boot window. I noticed LFS also gave a link on page 8.4 xorriso, that is required for running the commands on the using grub page,

Re: [lfs-support] chapter 8.4 using grub

2012-08-31 Thread Garrett Gaston
Thanks http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/multimedia/libisoburn.html Does the above package need to me installed on the host or LFS system? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: