Re: [lfs-support] lfs-support Digest, Vol 2802, Issue 1

2013-02-26 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
On 02/26/2013 04:58 PM, Tobias Gasser wrote: Am 26.02.2013 15:24, schrieb Rick Berube: Just as a guess, I moved gmp to the Real Machine and re-attempted the process. This time it was successful. I would infer that LFS doesn't play well on virtualized hosts. Thanks. i use qemu since

Re: [lfs-support] How to build a multilib LFS?

2012-12-14 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
On 12/13/12 04:55, Bruce Dubbs wrote: William Harrington wrote: On Dec 12, 2012, at 6:38 PM, Henrik /KaarPoSoft wrote: I am new to multilib, so I a wondering about stuff like: - where in the toolchain building sequence should I target multilib? I tried pass 1, but maybe it would be enough

Re: [lfs-support] How to build a multilib LFS?

2012-12-14 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
On 12/13/12 01:38, Henrik /KaarPoSoft wrote: Dear all, I have build LFS and much of BLFS on my ancient 32bit machine. With a bit of tweaking, I have also got most of it to work on my new x86_64 machine. However, I do have a problem: I need xen virtualization. xen builds a BIOS using

[lfs-support] How to build a multilib LFS?

2012-12-12 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
Dear all, I have build LFS and much of BLFS on my ancient 32bit machine. With a bit of tweaking, I have also got most of it to work on my new x86_64 machine. However, I do have a problem: I need xen virtualization. xen builds a BIOS using the dev86 package. This worked fine on i?86, but dev86

Re: [lfs-support] What Is The LFS Partition?

2012-11-06 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
On 11/05/12 14:24, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: Howdy, I've done a major reset by giving up on installing an LFS system on my old 32-bit computer, and am now installing it on a new 64-bit system. The new system now has Fedora as the host system. It's installed on /dev/sdb and I want to put LFS on

Re: [lfs-support] What Is The LFS Partition?

2012-11-06 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
On 11/05/12 17:12, Bruce Dubbs wrote: For an SSD drive, I suggest getting gptdisk (fdisk syntax) or gparted (challenging syntax) and partitioning the drive as a gpt drive. I have been building on an old 32bit box with rotating disks. I am considering buying a new 64bit box with SSD. So I

Re: [lfs-support] What Is The LFS Partition?

2012-11-06 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
On 11/06/12 16:35, Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: Bruce wrote: sda2 is not really a partition. It contains the extended partitions. In your case, sda5 and sda6. Actually an extended partition is a partition, but it has sub- partitions. All this stuff is avoided with a GUID Partition Table (GPT)

Re: [lfs-support] What Is The LFS Partition?

2012-11-06 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
On 11/06/12 19:59, Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: Seriously, this is among the most useful articles -- and I do mean article -- that I've read about this topic. Thank you! Thank you for the nice words, I just hope it can help you... Suggestion: Stick to MBR for now! When you have learned how it

Re: [lfs-support] Can't boot into LFS kernel.

2012-09-13 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
On 09/13/12 04:03, Khoa Nguyen wrote: Hi Henrik, When you are in the shell in the initramfs, try cat /proc/filesystems cat /proc/partitions ls -l /dev blkid I got your point. But I don't see anything which related to /dev/sdb1. Maybe the kernel don't recognize

Re: [lfs-support] Can't boot into LFS kernel.

2012-09-12 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
On 09/12/12 05:03, Khoa Nguyen wrote: Can you tell me more about busybox ? What do you mean busybox in an initramfs ? I understand that due to failed boot process because the kernel can't mount the root file system to read /etc/inittab. So we use busybox to mount manually . Right ? When

Re: [lfs-support] Can't boot into LFS kernel.

2012-09-12 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
On 09/12/12 14:27, Khoa Nguyen wrote: Hi Henrik, Thank you very much. Your explanation is clear. I get a lot of knowledge from you. I've already made a initramfs as following: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/initramfs.html Great! (Not using busybox as I suggested but

Re: [lfs-support] Can't boot into LFS kernel.

2012-09-11 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
On 09/11/12 04:16, Khoa Nguyen wrote: I think there was any problem when i built the kernel for LFS. You can send me .config file of LFS ? When I type make modules_install, It displays : root:/sources/linux-3.2.6# make modules_install INSTALL arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.ko INSTALL

Re: [lfs-support] Can't boot into LFS kernel.

2012-09-11 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
On 09/11/12 11:27, Khoa Nguyen wrote: I've already select all SCSI driver, all fs driver but I don't find out CONFIG_VMWARE . CONFIG_VMWARE_PVSCSI=y CONFIG_VMWARE_BALLOON=y run make menuconfig type /VMWARE I built the kernel again. But problem is same. You could try to install another

Re: [lfs-support] Can't boot into LFS kernel.

2012-09-10 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
You may try root=/dev/sda1 Sometimes device naming is not consistent between distros. On 09/10/12 14:01, Khoa Nguyen wrote: Hi all, I've just finished LFS. However, I'm facing with the problem that I can't boot into the LFS kernel. It displays : VFS: Cannot open root device sdb1 or

Re: [lfs-support] Can't boot into LFS kernel.

2012-09-10 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
On 09/10/12 14:01, Khoa Nguyen wrote: Hi all, I've just finished LFS. However, I'm facing with the problem that I can't boot into the LFS kernel. It displays : VFS: Cannot open root device sdb1 or unkonwn-block(2,0) Please append a correct root= boot option; Kernel panic - not

Re: [lfs-support] prerequisites

2012-09-09 Thread Henrik /KaarPoSoft
On 09/10/12 00:05, Mikie wrote: It replaces the current .configwow... now I'm really confused LOL trying to understand thanks tw3ak I am a confused newbie too tw3ak but I'm going to guess that each time you run make menuconfig you get a new .config file. let's see what they say