geist1...@juno.com wrote: > Hi All; My name is Marty.. This is my first email to the group.. I am > trying to get an old LFS to work on my system.. And I am not doing > very well.. I tried to do a later LFS namely LFS 6.8, but ran into > many problems, and so I though I would start out with an older > version and work both my understanding and my compatance up.. I > printed the book for both LFS version 1.0 and LFS 2.0-pre1.. I > figured version 2.0 would have the bugs worked out from version 1.0.. > I did look at versions 1.1 and 1.2..
Wow. That's about 10 years old. It will be hard to help. > I have a 100G drive, That's plenty of room. We recommend 10G for an LFS system. > which I > have installed Red Hat Linux Enterprise WS (Red Hat Linux 9.1), which > is residing on hda1 and hda2, my LFS is residing on hda6.. When I try > to boot to the LFS partition it starts to load, but after a little > while it stops and says it cannot find the init file.. If it is looking for the init file, then lilo has done it's job and found the kernel and loaded it. > I am using > LILO for my boot loader, and in my lilo.conf script I have (for my > lfs) image=/boot/bzImage label=lfs initrd=/boot/vmlinuz > root=/dev/hda6 read-only this is at /etc/lilo.conf.. On my > /dev/hda6 section I have at /dev/hda6/etc/lilo.conf (the folowing) > image=/boot/bzImage label=lfs initrd=/boot/vmlinuz > root=/dev/hda6/ init=/dev/hda6/etc/inittab You don't say what version of the kernel is, but the init line is certainly wrong. You generally don't want any init= setting unless you are debugging. If that, you need init=/bin/bash init is a program, /etc/inittab is a data file and from the kernel's perspective, you never want to specify an executable starting with /dev. ( I have tried it with > and without this line andit does the same thing) read-only On the > /etc/init it has what came with the Red Hat system and I have not > altered it at all.. On my hda6 I have for /dev/hda6/etc/inittab > (what is in the book) which is the following id:2:initdefault: > ca:12345:crtlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/sulogin I am using Linux From Scratch Book > version 2.0-pre1.. So, my question is How do I get the Linux system > when it is booting from /dev/hda6 to recognize the files that are on > the hda6 partition ?? And when it stops, what is it looking for ?? It > says the it can't find init= The kernel looks for init in /sbin by default. You don't give us any info on what hw you are using. I don't know what the base system, rh9, has for utilities. What you can do though is go preface of the current book and give us the output of the script for Host System Requirements. We may be able to advise you further with that info. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page