Ken Moffat wrote: > This is embarrassing, but I guess I can live with that if someone > is abie to help diagnose the problem :) > > Built LFS-6.8 on a desktop, updated all the desktop packages, > decided it was a 'good enough' version to use to update my server. > The server's old system runs 2.6.32.43, so I changed --enable-kernel > to 2.6.32 (my desktops had something newer). A comment by Bruce > later made me wonder if udev-166 might be too new for 2.6.32.
I don't know what's happening, but the first thing I'd try is --enable-kernel=2.6.25 in glibc. > After weeks sorting out what to build for the server, and how, and > how much I actually want to be working when it boots, I've now got it > booting. Looks good, except that nothing other than '/' is mounted > - no /home, nor other separate partitions. At first I thought it > was a problem with LABEL= in /etc/fstab, then I realised the devices > are not apparent in /dev. Is the kernel finding the device? That is: [ 2.708862] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte logical blocks: (320 GB/298 GiB) [ 2.709345] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 2.709593] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 2.709636] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Um, I see from your 2nd post that it is. ... [ 2.890770] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 sda11 sda12 sda13 sda14 sda15 sda16 sda17 > But I don't see this. > This was using the same 2.6.32.43 config as on the old system (but, > a newer toolchain). On a hunch, I decided to try linux-3.0.4 which > I had handy - same config, then make oldconfig and accept all the > defaults. Booting that made no difference, so I'm back in the old > system again. > > What the log shows is that the disks show up, but for some reason > /dev/sd* (and /dev/md0) do not appear although /dev/sr0 was present. > > Highlights of the log (first few lines from 3.0.4, kernel finding > the disks and starting mdadm, error messages from smartd because the > devices don't exist) attached. > > I built udev-166 using the unchanged script that I used for the > desktop - it worked there, so I think it has been built correctly. > Certainly, I can't see any error messages in its build log. If you were using LFS7, you could look at /run/var/bootlog (tmpfs) or /var/log/boot.log (on disk). Are you using RAID? I don't have much experience with SW raid. When I do use raid, I do it with HW and then treat it as a normal non-raid device. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
