Re: bootloaders and USB

2010-06-29 Thread Robert A. Lerche
> whoa...THAT's what I need I think. > > can you post an iso of that cd so I can use it as a reference? OK, you can fetch: http://msbit.com/osdv/sample-grub.iso It is grub plus the Ubuntu 9.04 kernel. You can interrupt the boot sequence and edit the kernel line to specify the desired root

Re: Problem installing glibc-2.11.1 in section 6.9

2010-06-29 Thread Joshua Willems
2010/6/29 Ken Moffat : >  Perhaps you are missing one of the lib64 symlinks > (for some reason we create these in section 6.5, > "Creating Directories"). > > Both /lib64 and /usr/lib64 should point to the > corresponding lib direcories. Thank you for pointing this out. I checked, and it appeared I

Re: Problem installing glibc-2.11.1 in section 6.9

2010-06-29 Thread Ken Moffat
On 29 June 2010 17:57, Joshua Willems wrote: > > The problem is, when I do 'make install', it returns the following error: > > -- > > Use of uninitialized value in string ne at > scripts/test-installation.pl line 163, line 20. > Library libgcc_s is not correctly installed. > Please check your

Re: Problem installing glibc-2.11.1 in section 6.9

2010-06-29 Thread Joshua Willems
2010/6/29 Ian Harrold : > It appears your GCC install is not correct.   The error is with > libgcc_s.so.1 not being present when ldd is performed.   It could be also a > path issue if you installed the gcc library somewhere other than /usr/lib/ The files are linked in to /tools/lib in /usr/lib: r

Re: Help with Glib-c 2.11.1 Pass 1 (ch 5.7) in LFS 6.6

2010-06-29 Thread Mike McCarty
Neal Murphy wrote: > On Tuesday 29 June 2010 12:57:21 Mike McCarty wrote: [about partitions] >> The mount command should be able to mount anything with a file system >> in it. CD-ROMS don't have partitions, nor do "native" USB sticks, [...] > An explicit example: 'mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb /mnt'.

Re: Problem installing glibc-2.11.1 in section 6.9

2010-06-29 Thread Ian Harrold
It appears your GCC install is not correct. The error is with libgcc_s.so.1 not being present when ldd is performed. It could be also a path issue if you installed the gcc library somewhere other than /usr/lib/ http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html - Ian On Tue, J

Re: Help with Glib-c 2.11.1 Pass 1 (ch 5.7) in LFS 6.6

2010-06-29 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 12:57:21 Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: > > On 29/06/10 11:50, Saxon Landers wrote: > >> Hi there, im new to the mailing list, so please correct me if i make any > >> mistakes. > >> > >> I have used linux for some time, and wanted to make my own, so ive gone > >>

Problem installing glibc-2.11.1 in section 6.9

2010-06-29 Thread Joshua Willems
Hello everyone, I've followed the 6.6 version of Linux From Scratch, not doing anything different from the book, and now I've run into a problem. I've searched on Google for this problem, but none of the results seemed to help me. The problem is, when I do 'make install', it returns the following

Re: Help with Glib-c 2.11.1 Pass 1 (ch 5.7) in LFS 6.6

2010-06-29 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Benton wrote: > On 29/06/10 11:50, Saxon Landers wrote: >> Hi there, im new to the mailing list, so please correct me if i make any >> mistakes. >> >> I have used linux for some time, and wanted to make my own, so ive gone >> for LFS. >> I am compiling onto a SanDisk Cruzer 4gb portable USB

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-06-29 Thread Mike McCarty
al...@verizon.net wrote: > On Jun 29, 07:40:18 AM, Simon wrote: > > I'm confused. So before we go to the _exact_ steps of Yes. You are conflating almost unrelated things. I'm not a specialist on that particular video processor, so take what I write here with a little grain of salt here and there

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-06-29 Thread Trent Shea
> With "nouveau", my boot-up goes through these basic steps: My setup is KMS with intel hardware. > 1. The original/"regular" console sequence (80x25) > 2. Nouveau is loaded by UDEV > 3. At this point, the console goes blank for a sec or so. > The preceding messages are wiped out. > 4. The rema

Re: bootloaders and USB

2010-06-29 Thread Eric Miller
whoa...THAT's what I need I think. can you post an iso of that cd so I can use it as a reference? On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Robert A. Lerche wrote: > What I have done is to build a grub CD that also includes copies of > the kernel and initrd from the desired root device. Grub can then

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-06-29 Thread alupu
On Jun 29, 07:40:18 AM, Simon wrote: > What exactly is your problem with running in the high-res mode? > If it's just that the font size is too small, I'd have to repeat > Stephane's suggestion of selecting a different console font > (somewhere in the kernel config, I think). I'm confused. So be

Re: bootloaders and USB

2010-06-29 Thread Robert A. Lerche
What I have done is to build a grub CD that also includes copies of the kernel and initrd from the desired root device. Grub can then use the same BIOS I/O to start the kernel and the kernel will have the device support for the BIOS-inaccessible root device. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman

Re: Help with Glib-c 2.11.1 Pass 1 (ch 5.7) in LFS 6.6

2010-06-29 Thread littlebat
> l...@ubuntu10-clean:/mnt/lfs/tools/glibc-build$ make I am also new to LFS, the book says we should always work in directory /mnt/lfs/sources and install temporary tools in directory /mnt/lfs/tools. So, the right build place of glibc-build pass1 should be "/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build". -- littl

Re: Help with Glib-c 2.11.1 Pass 1 (ch 5.7) in LFS 6.6

2010-06-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On 29/06/10 11:50, Saxon Landers wrote: > Hi there, im new to the mailing list, so please correct me if i make any > mistakes. > > I have used linux for some time, and wanted to make my own, so ive gone > for LFS. > I am compiling onto a SanDisk Cruzer 4gb portable USB flash drive, so i > am using

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-06-29 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 13:28 -0500, al...@verizon.net wrote: > Whether I have "fbcon" in the kernel or as a module (with its > convenient font, 80x25 full wide-screen) I cannot (or I > don't know how to) change the 240x67 resolution back to > what I have always used and preferred, 80x25 full wide-sc

Help with Glib-c 2.11.1 Pass 1 (ch 5.7) in LFS 6.6

2010-06-29 Thread Saxon Landers
Hi there, im new to the mailing list, so please correct me if i make any mistakes. I have used linux for some time, and wanted to make my own, so ive gone for LFS. I am compiling onto a SanDisk Cruzer 4gb portable USB flash drive, so i am using /dev/sdb (without a specific partition) to save sp