[lfs-support] LFS and network aliases on ethernet ports

2013-12-22 Thread Geoff Swan
Is it possible to add alias networks to an ethernet device in LFS-7.4? I was used to the old method of having ifconfig-eth0:1, etc with the alias network defined in this file, as for the ifconfig-eth0 file. However the alias files do not appear to be recognised on boot. I don't thing the

Re: [lfs-support] LFS and network aliases on ethernet ports

2013-12-22 Thread Geoff Swan
On 23/12/2013 11:03 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Geoff Swan wrote: Is it possible to add alias networks to an ethernet device in LFS-7.4? I was used to the old method of having ifconfig-eth0:1, etc with the alias network defined in this file, as for the ifconfig-eth0 file. However the alias files

Re: [lfs-support] Help with Installing to UEFI Motherboard

2013-11-17 Thread Geoff Swan
On 18/11/2013 1:28 AM, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: On 11/16/2013 8:56 PM, Geoff Swan wrote: On 17/11/2013 11:26 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: Just so I understand. You got your kernel--3.10.10 (?)--to boot from the EFI partition? And without initrd or initramfs? The answer to this question

Re: [lfs-support] Help with Installing to UEFI Motherboard

2013-11-16 Thread Geoff Swan
On 17/11/2013 10:10 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: On 11/16/2013 03:40 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 02:04:31PM -0500, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: Hi, After getting the stock LFS system installed, with an MBR type boot installation, I'm experimenting with installing to a UEFI type boot

Re: [lfs-support] Help with Installing to UEFI Motherboard

2013-11-16 Thread Geoff Swan
On 17/11/2013 11:26 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: On 11/16/2013 05:44 PM, Geoff Swan wrote: On 17/11/2013 10:10 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: On 11/16/2013 03:40 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 02:04:31PM -0500, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: Hi, After getting the stock LFS system installed

Re: [lfs-support] EFI, UEFI and LFS--Complicated, Confusing or Can of Worms

2013-11-01 Thread Geoff Swan
That works for me too. Using a 64-bit kernel and creating the EFI file in the efi partition with the kernel boot parameters built into the kernel. Also built efibootmgr utility. On 1/11/2013 11:13 PM, Craig Magee wrote: I use UEFI by putting the kernel and an (optional) initrd in the EFI

Re: [lfs-support] Boot Issues

2013-09-26 Thread Geoff Swan
If you are using an EFI boot system then you can boot using that for usb as well as disc. It requires the EFI partition, which is a vfat type (fat32 or fat16) fs, and a couple of additional things installed (pciutils and efibootmgr). On 26/09/2013 6:58 PM, Thomas de Roo wrote: Booting from USB

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.4 grub-install problem

2013-09-21 Thread Geoff Swan
On 21/09/2013 12:48 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Geoff Swan wrote: I recently proceeded with the LFS-7.4 build, using a FC16 bootstrap host, which built nicely all the way to the grub-install part in chapter 8.4. The FC16 bootstrap OS is on sda and the new LFS build is on sdb, so eventually sda

[lfs-support] LFS-7.4 grub-install problem

2013-09-19 Thread Geoff Swan
I recently proceeded with the LFS-7.4 build, using a FC16 bootstrap host, which built nicely all the way to the grub-install part in chapter 8.4. The FC16 bootstrap OS is on sda and the new LFS build is on sdb, so eventually sda can be removed and replaced with the LFS drive. I have mounted the

[lfs-support] LFS 7.3 book - rcsysinit.d missing

2013-05-28 Thread Geoff Swan
After installation using the LFS-7.3 book, the reboot process is not working, with error messages about /run being a read-only filesystem when attempting to execute /etc/rc.d/rcS.d/S00mountvirtfs I noticed that rcsysinit.d is not present in /etc/rc.d. Are the scripts that should be in this

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.3 book - rcsysinit.d missing

2013-05-28 Thread Geoff Swan
On 29/05/2013 11:09 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Geoff Swan wrote: After installation using the LFS-7.3 book, the reboot process is not working, with error messages about /run being a read-only filesystem when attempting to execute /etc/rc.d/rcS.d/S00mountvirtfs Do you have a symlink /var/run

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.3 book - rcsysinit.d missing

2013-05-28 Thread Geoff Swan
Just to follow up, the problem was that TMPFS was now enabled in the kernel build. It now boots OK. Thanks, - Geoff On 29/05/2013 11:20 AM, Geoff Swan wrote: On 29/05/2013 11:09 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Geoff Swan wrote: After installation using the LFS-7.3 book, the reboot process

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.3 book - rcsysinit.d missing

2013-05-28 Thread Geoff Swan
On 29/05/2013 11:33 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Geoff Swan wrote: On 29/05/2013 11:09 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: You may also need to check that your kernel configuration has CONFIG_TMPFS=y Ahh, not set! CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y # CONFIG_TMPFS is not set I'll rebuild

[lfs-support] passwd not waiting for prompt

2013-05-22 Thread Geoff Swan
An interesting problem appeared during an LFS 7.3 build after the build and installation of shadow. Everything appeared successful, however when trying to set the root passwd it fails to prompt for the new passwd. It simply shows the lines below (as if a CR was hit) and returns to the prompt.

Re: [lfs-support] 70-persistent rules

2013-01-09 Thread Geoff Swan
On 10/01/2013 12:27 AM, Mike Johnston wrote: - Original Message - From: Thomas de Roo tho...@de-roo.org To: Mike Johnston mkejohns...@yahoo.com; LFS Support List lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 8:14 AM Subject: Re: [lfs-support]

Re: [lfs-support] at command?

2012-01-06 Thread Geoff Swan
functionality? (start some job/batch file at a given time) 3) Finally, if not part of LFS, can anyone suggest where to find the sources so I can install it? Thanks for any help. Geoff Swan replied For cron type functionality I ended up using dcron. http://www.jimpryor.net/linux/releases/dcron

Re: [lfs-support] at command?

2012-01-05 Thread Geoff Swan
On 6/01/2012 2:59 PM, David Gay wrote: Since I get a command not found type error, I assume not, but I have to ask: 1) is the at command installed in any of the LFS packages? 2) Or, is there some other command that provides the same functionality? (start some job/batch file at a given

[lfs-support] Problem at 7.2.1 Creating stable names for network interfaces

2011-12-07 Thread Geoff Swan
Hi, I'm using LFS-book-7.0 and have reached the udev rules initialisation step for network interfaces: for NIC in /sys/class/net/* ; do INTERFACE=${NIC##*/} udevadm test --action=add $NIC done This step fails to create the 70-persistent-net.rules file. I have two network interfaces on the