Re: with new system, how to run a test boot?

2009-08-17 Thread Justin P. Mattock
Michael Tsang wrote: > On Monday 17 August 2009 15:15:39 Russell Stockhammer wrote: > >> You can't "boot" into a sub-directory of a file system but you could do the >> following >> >> >> >> 1) Configure grub to boot the kernel in the /mnt/lfs directory with the >> current root file system a

Re: with new system, how to run a test boot?

2009-08-17 Thread Michael Tsang
On Monday 17 August 2009 15:15:39 Russell Stockhammer wrote: > You can't "boot" into a sub-directory of a file system but you could do the > following > > > > 1) Configure grub to boot the kernel in the /mnt/lfs directory with the > current root file system as a the root directory > > 2) Boot g

Re: with new system, how to run a test boot?

2009-08-17 Thread Justin P. Mattock
cool, thanks for the info. I'll have a look and see if I can do this. Robert A. Lerche wrote: > There's an LFS hint describing how to boot LFS without requiring a > separate partition (i.e., in the same file system as another operating > system). > > The trick is a special "pre-init" program that

Re: with new system, how to run a test boot?

2009-08-17 Thread Robert A. Lerche
There's an LFS hint describing how to boot LFS without requiring a separate partition (i.e., in the same file system as another operating system). The trick is a special "pre-init" program that does a chroot early in the boot process (automatically, rather than manually as Russell Stockhammer sugg

Re: with new system, how to run a test boot?

2009-08-17 Thread Justin P. Mattock
xec /sbin/init". This will chroot into the > /mnt/lfs system and start init as if the kernel started it at boot. > > NOTE: the "exec" is important because init -MUST- be run as PID 1. > > Russ > > > Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:37:05 -0700 > > From: justi

RE: with new system, how to run a test boot?

2009-08-17 Thread Russell Stockhammer
E: the "exec" is important because init -MUST- be run as PID 1. Russ > Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:37:05 -0700 > From: justinmatt...@gmail.com > To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org > Subject: with new system, how to run a test boot? > > quick question, > with a n

Re: with new system, how to run a test boot?

2009-08-16 Thread Justin P. Mattock
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Justin P. Mattock wrote: > > >> I like that idea, so you would have let's say 3 or 4 100mb >> test runs setup for multi booting. >> > > I like to use 10GB for the systems. 100MB is way too small. USe the 100MB > partition for /boot as you have below. > > >> so a

Re: with new system, how to run a test boot?

2009-08-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Justin P. Mattock wrote: > I like that idea, so you would have let's say 3 or 4 100mb > test runs setup for multi booting. I like to use 10GB for the systems. 100MB is way too small. USe the 100MB partition for /boot as you have below. > so a simple scheme would be like this: > (using the sys

Re: with new system, how to run a test boot?

2009-08-16 Thread Justin P. Mattock
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Justin P. Mattock wrote: > >> quick question, >> with a new fresh system in the /where directory >> is there a way to adjust grub on the host system >> to actually boot the new system, before moving the newly created >> system to / >> > > You don't give particulars bu

Re: with new system, how to run a test boot?

2009-08-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Justin P. Mattock wrote: > quick question, > with a new fresh system in the /where directory > is there a way to adjust grub on the host system > to actually boot the new system, before moving the newly created > system to / You don't give particulars but if you built on a separate partition, than

with new system, how to run a test boot?

2009-08-16 Thread Justin P. Mattock
quick question, with a new fresh system in the /where directory is there a way to adjust grub on the host system to actually boot the new system, before moving the newly created system to / Justin P. Mattock -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscra