On Sunday 12 December 2010 01:09:39 Daryl Lee wrote: > Well, I did it--sort of. After wrestling GRUB to the mat, I have succeeded > in booting LFS 6.7 on my laptop that is already running Windows XP and > Ubuntu 10.04. There is something very satisfying about that! > > But there is a lingering issue. When the new kernel boots, after the swap > partition is mounted (or as part of mounting it--I can't really be sure) I > get a message saying the file system is mounted and if I continue > "***SEVERE***" damage will occur. Of course I answer "no" and then a few > more messages stream by and I get a login prompt that actually works. > Before I go digging into the code, can someone tell me what that warning is > all about, and what I might do to boot without getting it? In case the > answer requires it, my partitions are as follows: > > /dev/sda1 Primary Windows XP NTFS > /dev/sda2 Primary Shared FAT32 > /dev/sda3 Extended > /dev/sda5 Logical Ubuntu 10.04 ext3 > /dev/sda6 Logical LFS 6.7 ext3 > /dev/sda7 Logical swap
Peruse your /etc/fstab to be certain you have correctly selected the partitions. On both Ubuntu *and* LFS. If that isn't it, it may be that LFS detects alien usage of swap (by Ubuntu). The warning may be related to suspending/hibernating Ubuntu. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
