[lfs-support] Building LFS on a usb drive

2019-03-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
After a long thread on -support today I did a test build on a USB drive today. These are some observations. The USB drive was /dev/sdg. I only had one partition on the MSDOS style partition table. From the host I installed GRUB with grub-install /dev/sdg To boot, I needed a grub.cfg f

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Fail to Boot at End Trace...

2019-03-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 3/19/19 4:54 PM, Pei Jia wrote: Hi, Pierre and Bruce: My bad... I tried */dev/sdd1*, and it's *working* :'(:'( There are still some *errors*: https://longervision.cc/bugs/booting_bugs.jpg And it's seriously basic, but it's already 1.1 Giga? No command *adduser*, *addgroup*? Try

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Fail to Boot at End Trace...

2019-03-19 Thread Pei Jia
Hi, Pierre and Bruce: My bad... I tried */dev/sdd1*, and it's *working* :'(:'( There are still some *errors*: https://longervision.cc/bugs/booting_bugs.jpg And it's seriously basic, but it's already 1.1 Giga? No command *adduser*, *addgroup*? hmmm.. Any further suggestions? Wh

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Fail to Boot at End Trace...

2019-03-19 Thread Pei Jia
Hi, Bruce, this is *already* my current *grub.cfg on USB stick*. All the bugs I posted are just with this *grub.cfg*: /➜  grub cat grub.cfg // //# Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg// //set default=0// //set timeout=5// // //insmod part_msdos// //insmod ext2// //set root=(hd0,msdos1)// // //menuentr

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Fail to Boot at End Trace...

2019-03-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 3/19/19 1:55 PM, Pei Jia wrote: Hi, Thank you Pierre and Bruce: 1. Right now, I booted into my laptop's  Ubuntu 18.04.2, and /dev/sde1 corresponds to my USB stick for sure, as I can definitely see the following line: ➜  ~ sudo blkid ... /dev/sde1: LABEL="skyvision-3.0" UUID="d8a7b9

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Fail to Boot at End Trace...

2019-03-19 Thread Pei Jia
Hi, Thank you Pierre and Bruce: 1. Right now, I booted into my laptop's  Ubuntu 18.04.2, and /dev/sde1 corresponds to my USB stick for sure, as I can definitely see the following line: ➜  ~ sudo blkid ... /dev/sde1: LABEL="skyvision-3.0" UUID="d8a7b940-0ff5-41c4-81a0-9fd1797501ed" TYPE

Re: [lfs-support] coreutis-8.30 multibyte problem

2019-03-19 Thread José Carlos Carrión Plaza
> El 19 mar 2019, a las 17:14, Bruce Dubbs escribió: > > On 3/19/19 11:05 AM, José Carlos Carrión Plaza wrote: >> Enviado desde mi iPhone >>> El 19 mar 2019, a las 14:46, Pierre Labastie >>> escribió: >>> On 19/03/2019 13:43, José Carlos Carrión Plaza wrote: Hello co-listers:

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Fail to Boot at End Trace...

2019-03-19 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 19/03/2019 16:59, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 3/19/19 10:01 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 19/03/2019 14:57, William Harrington wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:20:32 -0700 Pei Jia wrote: Hey all.  The problem is with the linux command line in grub.cfg and/or the drivers in the kernel. Note that

Re: [lfs-support] Potential damage of $LFS/tools setting in section 4.2 and 4.3 of LFS book.

2019-03-19 Thread Douglas R. Reno
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 11:12 AM Bruce Dubbs wrote: > On 3/19/19 2:25 AM, niuneilneo wrote: > > As described in the title, the $LFS/tools setting could be harmful for > > the current linux distros. Because there already exists /tools folder in > > current Debian/Ubuntu distros, and it is not possib

Re: [lfs-support] coreutis-8.30 multibyte problem

2019-03-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 3/19/19 11:05 AM, José Carlos Carrión Plaza wrote: Enviado desde mi iPhone El 19 mar 2019, a las 14:46, Pierre Labastie escribió: On 19/03/2019 13:43, José Carlos Carrión Plaza wrote: Hello co-listers: I’ve installed LFS 8.4. I’ve built several BLFS packages without problem and X-Wind

Re: [lfs-support] Potential damage of $LFS/tools setting in section 4.2 and 4.3 of LFS book.

2019-03-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 3/19/19 2:25 AM, niuneilneo wrote: As described in the title, the $LFS/tools setting could be harmful for the current linux distros. Because there already exists /tools folder in current Debian/Ubuntu distros, and it is not possible to correctly set the symlink between the $LFS/tools and /to

Re: [lfs-support] coreutis-8.30 multibyte problem

2019-03-19 Thread José Carlos Carrión Plaza
Enviado desde mi iPhone > El 19 mar 2019, a las 14:46, Pierre Labastie > escribió: > >> On 19/03/2019 13:43, José Carlos Carrión Plaza wrote: >> Hello co-listers: >> >> I’ve installed LFS 8.4. I’ve built several BLFS packages without problem and >> X-Window is running (with motif-2.3.8). At

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Fail to Boot at End Trace...

2019-03-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 3/19/19 10:01 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 19/03/2019 14:57, William Harrington wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:20:32 -0700 Pei Jia wrote: Hey all. The problem is with the linux command line in grub.cfg and/or the drivers in the kernel. Note that he *IS* booting kernel. GRUB is finding

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Fail to Boot at End Trace...

2019-03-19 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 19/03/2019 14:57, William Harrington wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:20:32 -0700 Pei Jia wrote: Hi, all: Thank you for your help so far... I make some progress, please refer to the following pictures... https://longervision.cc/bugs/gparted.jpg https://longervision.cc/bugs/grub.jpg https

Re: [lfs-support] Potential damage of $LFS/tools setting in section 4.2 and 4.3 of LFS book.

2019-03-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 3/19/19, Frans de Boer wrote: > On 19-03-19 10:19, Michael Shell wrote: >> On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:15:25 +0100 >> thomas wrote: >> >>> Renaming /tools to another name will be appropriate to come over this >>> issue. >> >> Perhaps a more functionally descriptive name would also help in other >>

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Fail to Boot at End Trace...

2019-03-19 Thread William Harrington
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:20:32 -0700 Pei Jia wrote: > > Hi, all: > > > Thank you for your help so far... I make some progress, please refer to > the following pictures... > > > https://longervision.cc/bugs/gparted.jpg > > https://longervision.cc/bugs/grub.jpg > > https://longervision.cc/bug

Re: [lfs-support] coreutis-8.30 multibyte problem

2019-03-19 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 19/03/2019 13:43, José Carlos Carrión Plaza wrote: Hello co-listers: I’ve installed LFS 8.4. I’ve built several BLFS packages without problem and X-Window is running (with motif-2.3.8). At the booting of MariadB I’ve detected the following problem: -bash-5.0# echo foobar | LANG=POSIX cut -

[lfs-support] coreutis-8.30 multibyte problem

2019-03-19 Thread José Carlos Carrión Plaza
Hello co-listers: I’ve installed LFS 8.4. I’ve built several BLFS packages without problem and X-Window is running (with motif-2.3.8). At the booting of MariadB I’ve detected the following problem: -bash-5.0# echo foobar | LANG=POSIX cut -c4 b -bash-5.0# echo foobar | LANG=en_US.iso8859-1 cut -

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Fail to Boot at End Trace...

2019-03-19 Thread spiky
On 18/03/2019 23:20, Pei Jia wrote: Hi, all: Thank you for your help so far... I make some progress, please refer to the following pictures... https://longervision.cc/bugs/gparted.jpg https://longervision.cc/bugs/grub.jpg https://longervision.cc/bugs/kernel_panic.jpg I'm pretty sure

Re: [lfs-support] Potential damage of $LFS/tools setting in section 4.2 and 4.3 of LFS book.

2019-03-19 Thread thomas
Am 2019-03-19 10:31, schrieb Frans de Boer: On 19-03-19 10:19, Michael Shell wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:15:25 +0100 thomas wrote: Renaming /tools to another name will be appropriate to come over this issue. Perhaps a more functionally descriptive name would also help in other ways. After

Re: [lfs-support] Potential damage of $LFS/tools setting in section 4.2 and 4.3 of LFS book.

2019-03-19 Thread Frans de Boer
On 19-03-19 10:19, Michael Shell wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:15:25 +0100 thomas wrote: Renaming /tools to another name will be appropriate to come over this issue. Perhaps a more functionally descriptive name would also help in other ways. After all, the stuff in /tools is for a *temporary

Re: [lfs-support] Potential damage of $LFS/tools setting in section 4.2 and 4.3 of LFS book.

2019-03-19 Thread Michael Shell
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:15:25 +0100 thomas wrote: > Renaming /tools to another name will be appropriate to come over this > issue. Perhaps a more functionally descriptive name would also help in other ways. After all, the stuff in /tools is for a *temporary* LFS system, a first stage of the LFS

Re: [lfs-support] Potential damage of $LFS/tools setting in section 4.2 and 4.3 of LFS book.

2019-03-19 Thread thomas
Am 2019-03-19 08:25, schrieb niuneilneo: font{ line-height: 1.6; } ul,ol{ padding-left: 20px; list-style-position: inside; } As described in the title, the $LFS/tools setting could be harmful for the current linux distros. Because there already exists /tools folder in current Debian/Ubuntu distr

[lfs-support] Potential damage of $LFS/tools setting in section 4.2 and 4.3 of LFS book.

2019-03-19 Thread niuneilneo
As described in the title, the $LFS/tools setting could be harmful for the current linux distros. Because there already exists /tools folder in current Debian/Ubuntu distros, and it is not possible to correctly set the symlink between the $LFS/tools and /tools. Even if I