LFS 8.4

2014-09-05 Thread Michael Havens
I'm in the step in which they talk about the boot partition and grub. I have some questions about the boot partition before I proceed: Do all Linux distos look for a boot partition first or else how does this work? The instructions say to modify fstab. Here is the current fstab for lfs: ==> /

Re: Linux from scratch section 8.3

2014-09-05 Thread Michael Havens
thanks You inspired me to read the instructions again and it says to "Install the modules, if the kernel configuration uses them". Well, as I suspected I don't have any modules so that is why I'm getting the error. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Michael Butash wrote: > You

Re: (OT) Questions About SSDs for a Laptop

2014-09-05 Thread Mark Phillips
Michael, I found this blog post, but no date, http://blog.miketoscano.com/?p=307. It seems the Ubuntu installer can be used to set up raid1 and lvm. I was surprised at the blogger used lvm and the entire drive for /, but to each his own. I assume one could still use the Ubuntu installer and add so

Re: Linux from scratch section 8.3

2014-09-05 Thread Michael Butash
You need modules unless compiling everything static, which usually is good in theory, but bad in practice unless a very embedded, specific hardware use. Is that what you're doing? If so, maybe lfs wants/expects modular kernels for its build tools. Seems like those are likely dependent on som

Linux from scratch section 8.3

2014-09-05 Thread Michael Havens
I'm almost done with the base LFS system. The error I am getting now is: Makefile:1024: recipe for target 'modules_install' failed I'm thinking that it is because I'm not installing any modules This is what I entered to get to that point: make>>make.fail 2>&1 make modules_install>>install.fail

Another Nail in the M$ Coffin

2014-09-05 Thread techlists
Hi Ya'll, I only use Windows for a handful of things. I have a laptop running win7. A couple days ago the automatic updates kicked in and upon completion I was unable to use the computer. Every time I attempted to launch an application I would be greeted with an error message stating the

Re: (OT) Questions About SSDs for a Laptop

2014-09-05 Thread Michael Butash
Not to discourage your learning, but here's how I build my ssd's on both my desktop and laptops now universally (assuming I can cram 2 disks in). This I've built over several years of trial and error with ssd's and various os. I made a variation for uefi booting too my asus that wouldn't do le

Re: (OT) Questions About SSDs for a Laptop

2014-09-05 Thread Michael Butash
Raid 1 is simply giving you redundancy. When, not if, it breaks, theoretically both shouldn't fail. I have heard of instances where masses of drives in a dc all purchased the same time began all failing, taking out clusters as more than 1 disk was dying without any hot standby, etc. LVM is