Re: Booting LFS Error -VFS: Unable to mount root (Eric Plummer)

2011-08-03 Thread Danny Engelbarts
Oz, On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 08:30 +0200, Oz Nahum Tiram wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your answers. I have read in the manual carefully again. I am > really sorry, I missed the > mentioning that linux won't boot from UUID with out initrd. So I went a head > and change > my boot line to root=/dev/sdb1

Re: Break between the builds

2011-07-22 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On vr, 2011-07-22 at 06:24 -0700, Ashutosh Narayan wrote: > --- On Fri, 7/22/11, Danny Engelbarts wrote: > > From: Danny Engelbarts > Subject: Re: Break between the builds > To: "LFS Support List" > Date: Friday, July 22, 2011, 6:22 PM > > On vr, 2011-07-2

Re: Break between the builds

2011-07-22 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On vr, 2011-07-22 at 05:11 -0700, Ashutosh Narayan wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Thanks for your quick response. > Well, I am using lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r2160.iso to boot off from. This the > latest iso I got from the website. And it contains official LFS-6.3 book > which I am referring to. Am I using t

Re: What should I choose while installing Linux Kernel?

2011-06-26 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On zo, 2011-06-26 at 09:49 -0400, Neal Murphy wrote: > > Modules are compiled separately and saved onto > > the hard drive, they will not be available until after the hard drive > > has been mounted and so if the kernel needs that module during the boot > > process then the kernel will panic and wi

Re: Re:6.9. Glibc-2.12.1

2011-06-17 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On vr, 2011-06-17 at 22:12 +0800, Webmaster wrote: > I never "check", because if the check passed it's useless but if the > check failed you can do nothing. If the check passed you know you have succeeded thus far, if it failed you might have made a mistake. I'd rather _know_ something is wrong th

Re: Building a LFS system

2011-03-31 Thread Danny Engelbarts
> I first posted to this list as I was wondering about building a lfs box > without using a host linux box to compile the files needed to build a lfs And how exactly do you propose to compile something without an OS? There is no need to install linux on your box, you could start with a live CD bu

Re: OT: Unix Backup & Recovery CD-ROM

2010-07-14 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:03:02 Mike McCarty wrote: > I was at a used book store and selected a copy of O'Reilly's > "Unix Backup and Recovery" "nutshell" series book for purchase. > One of our party became ill, and I left early to take her home. > When I retuned, the others had already made the

Re: bootloaders and USB

2010-06-28 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On Monday 28 June 2010 01:35:40 Eric Miller wrote: > do most of the standard bootloaders (grub/,lilo, etc) have the ability to > boot to usb even when the BIOS doesn't natively support boot to usb or > floppy emulation? Most standard bootloaders do not, i believe the smartbootmanager would be able

Re: A typo in the wget-list

2010-06-22 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 15:09:07 Mike McCarty wrote: > Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > Hello. > > > > There is a typo (imho) in the wget-list of the svn-20100622 ; > > line 11 is > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net//expect/expect-5.44.1.15.tar.bz2 > > and should be > > http://prdownloads.sourcef

Re: LFS-6.6, Stage2, glibc, nscd.c:442

2010-06-02 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 21:22:07 Mike McCarty wrote: > Paul Rogers wrote: > >>> have one system that trails, i.e. has exactly the package versions > >>> specified in the HSR, and verifies that each version of LFS does in > >>> fact install flawlessly with those prerequisites. > >> > >> Voluntee

Re: LFS for old Compaq LTE 5300 laptop

2010-05-18 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On Tuesday 18 May 2010 13:03:06 Leho PƤrnapuu wrote: > Hello, > > I have one old Laptop: Compaq LTE 5300. > > It has: > 133MHz CPU > 32MB RAM > 2167MB Hard Disk Drive > > PCMCIA TRENDnet Wireless CardBus IEEE 802.11b/2.4GHz > TEW-226PC Does that work in win98? Are there linux drivers available

Re: About Swap space and Virtual Memory

2010-03-31 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:03:05 zzflop wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 04:56:04PM +0800, liu bo wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Could anybody tell me whether the SWAP space of my computer is used? > > > > According to the information below, > > > > Swap: 307192k total,0k us

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-30 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:19:24 Hans Kaper wrote: > Op Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:25:05 +0200 schreef Philipp Christian Loewner > The menu.lst entry is: > root (hd0,7) > kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.27.4 > root=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-SAMSUNG_HM160HI_16113662-0:0-part8 rootdelay=9 I was just rereadi

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-29 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:19:24 Hans Kaper wrote: > > Good suggestion. So once again I made an entry in Grub's menu.lst, > carefully copying the disk/by-id-field from the SUSE-entry that boots > allright from the usb-disk (and checked it with the udevinfo information), > trying the partition

Re: lfslivecd-x86_64-6.3-r2014 6.23. Perl-5.8.8 make fails

2007-10-20 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On Sunday 21 October 2007 00:47:18 Bauke Jan Douma wrote: > Danny Engelbarts wrote on 21-10-07 00:10: > > Hi, > > > > While building perl on my system with the x86_64-6.3-r2014 livecd i got > > the following error: > > > > make: *** No rule to make target `

lfslivecd-x86_64-6.3-r2014 6.23. Perl-5.8.8 make fails

2007-10-20 Thread Danny Engelbarts
Hi, While building perl on my system with the x86_64-6.3-r2014 livecd i got the following error: make: *** No rule to make target `', needed by `miniperlmain.o'. Stop. I was able to resolve this error using the patch in this mail; http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/11/msg