Also for the record the book LFS 6.5 does not tell you that the entries in menu.lst and fstab need to be sd now and not hd.
LFS 6.5 chapter 8.4.2 the last entry before EOF should be sdxx and not hdxx cat > boot/grub/menu.lst << "EOF" # Begin /boot/grub/menu.lst # By default boot the first menu entry. default 0 # Allow 30 seconds before booting the default. timeout 30 # Use prettier colors. color green/black light-green/black # The first entry is for LFS. title LFS 6.5 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.30.2 root=/dev/sda1 EOF LFS 6.5 chapter 8.2 the /dev/hd should be /dev/sd cat > /etc/fstab << "EOF" # Begin /etc/fstab # file system mount-point type options dump fsck # order /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda5 swap swap pri=1 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=4,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 # End /etc/fstab EOF Once I changed these entries with the help of Paul my LFS system booted with no problem. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
