On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 03:44:31PM +0100, Kaleb van Ingen Schenau wrote: > I'm not a 100% sure which drivers i need, luckily i have snapshots before > every major step in the book (I'm running LFS on a virtual machine), so > i've just gone back to before compiling the kernel and have configured to > install all possible harddrive drivers to see how that works out.
This is where LiveCDs (and distro initrds) might be helpful - lsmod on the host system can show which modules are loaded. OTOH, ISTR someone mentioned that knoppix LiveCDs build most things in. > > I must add that im trying to boot off a partition that isn't currently set > a a bootable partition in FDISK on the host OS, could this be relevent to > the errors I'm getting? > No. Marking a partition as bootable should not be needed in linux. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
