Re: boot 6.7 troubles

2010-10-30 Thread John Mitchell
Thanks Andy and Ken. I suspect that some combination of modules and perhaps a missing initrd.img file is my issue. On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 04:41:12PM -0600, John Mitchell wrote: > > > > I don't think this is a 'grub

Re: boot 6.7 troubles

2010-10-30 Thread John Mitchell
, 30 Oct 2010 16:41:12 -0600 > John Mitchell wrote: > > > Thanks Andy. > > > > I'm a bit out of phase with the email server. > > > > Yes -- the kernel does boot and prints a bunch of stuff (successful > stuff) > > to screen. > > > > T

Re: boot 6.7 troubles

2010-10-30 Thread John Mitchell
Andy, The error is emitted from: ./init/do_mounts.c I ran the following command and found this one match above: find . -name *.c -exec grep "Cannot open root device" {} \; -print Regards, John On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:41 PM, John Mitchell wrote: > Thanks Andy. > > I&#

Re: boot 6.7 troubles

2010-10-30 Thread John Mitchell
asn't mentioned in the book-6.7? Thanks, John On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:10:04 -0600 > John Mitchell wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have an older and existing grub (0.98) installation on my host that > >

Re: boot 6.7 troubles

2010-10-30 Thread John Mitchell
Thanks for your reply Andy. Yes -- the kernel is found and it seems to run along just fine until the following error: VFS: Cannot open root device "sdb8" or unknown-block(0,0) There are a few more messages after that but I don't really have access to them because I have know way to save them. T

boot 6.7 troubles

2010-10-30 Thread John Mitchell
Hi, I have an older and existing grub (0.98) installation on my host that works. I was hoping to use my existing grub installation and point to my new LFS system. I believe that the new kernel is found -- there seems to be trouble with finding the LFS '/' partition. Any ideas or suggestions? R

Re: v...@5.4-binutils

2010-10-26 Thread John Mitchell
I think the given syntax will work but here is a simple working example that includes ''case'' in the way you were looking for. this does the "ls" command back to back followed by the switch statement followed by another "ls" command: time { ls && ls && case $(uname -m) in x86_64) echo "HELLO" ;

6.10. Re-adjusting the Toolchain

2010-10-24 Thread John Mitchell
Hi, I don't quite understand how re-writing the 'specs' file under the '/tools' directory actually works -- by the way it does work!. The specs file that is written with the fancy 'sed' script shows up as: /tools/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.1/specs I don't get how writing the spec file

Re: LFS-GMP-5.0.1

2010-10-24 Thread John Mitchell
Hi Edgar, I'm curious about your "Fedora 13" basis. I have been using RH and Fedora for many years but never really dug into linux like this. I have finally become frustrated enough with the maintenance/upgrade issues that I decided to take more control. Can you perhaps describe (to whatever de

Version 6.7: Chapter 6.9.3. Configuring the Dynamic Loader

2010-10-24 Thread John Mitchell
Hi, I'm wandering if it makes any sense to configure /etc/ld.so.conf to include lib64 directories - /usr/local/lib64 - /opt/lib64 I guess this can always be added later? Thanks, John -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/fa

Re: glibc (stage 2) make install error

2010-10-24 Thread John Mitchell
Casey, Hmm... it appears that you didn't run one of the commands given in the book. QUOTING FROM THE BOOK: Section 6.9 When running *make install*, a script called test-installation.pl performs a small sanity test on our newly installed Glibc. However, because our toolchain still points to the /

Re: Glibc Testing Errors

2010-10-24 Thread John Mitchell
FYI: The compiler segfault below created one of my test errors that I reported earlier. -- This is one I guess I can legitimately ignore? Not sure about the remaining errors: make[2]: [/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored) make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/nptl/tst-rwlock6.ou

Re: Glibc Testing Errors

2010-10-24 Thread John Mitchell
Hi, This is my first crack at LFS. I'm wandering if the error associated with the link below was ever resolved? *Previous and related errors:* http://www.mail-archive.com/lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org/msg14143.html *My setup:* - Book 6.7 - 64 bit -- athlon x2 - host kernel = 2.6.31