Re: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub

2008-06-21 Thread Colin Kemp
On Jun 21, 2008, at 6:29 PM, "Rafael Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you. Your advise have got me back on the right tracks. > For the record, here are the instructions that can be used to get into > the building environment after a reboot from chapter 6.60 up. > > RESUMING LFS FROM 6

Re: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub

2008-06-21 Thread Rafael Lopez
Thank you. Your advise have got me back on the right tracks. For the record, here are the instructions that can be used to get into the building environment after a reboot from chapter 6.60 up. RESUMING LFS FROM 6.60 TO THE END = export LFS=/mnt/lfs mkdir -pv $LFS

Re: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub

2008-06-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Rafael Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/19, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Are you bind mounting the /dev partition when you enter the chroot? If >> you can't see /dev/hd* from within the chroot, then neither can grub >> and it can't determine yo

Re: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub

2008-06-19 Thread Rafael Lopez
2008/6/19, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Are you bind mounting the /dev partition when you enter the chroot? If > you can't see /dev/hd* from within the chroot, then neither can grub > and it can't determine your partition layout. Grub keeps your list of > partitions in the file /boot/grub

Re: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub

2008-06-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Rafael Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Murali, > > 1. Only one hard drive > > 2. & 3. From OUTSIDE chroot: > root [ / ]# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/lfs-cd 1548144 1265408204096 87% / > /dev/

Re: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub

2008-06-19 Thread Rafael Lopez
essage- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rafael > Lopez > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:13 AM > To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org > Subject: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub > > The kernel was installed and chapter 8.4

Re: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub

2008-06-19 Thread Rafael Lopez
>From WITHIN chroot: root:/sources# cd /dev root:/dev# ls pts shm root:/dev# root:/dev# mount none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=4,mode=620) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=4,mode=620) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=4

Re: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub

2008-06-19 Thread Rafael Lopez
Using tab repeatedly after the opening parenthesis in just results in several lines, one line for each tab, li these: grub> root ( grub> root ( grub> root ( grub> root ( 2008/6/19, Trent Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Try to use tab to auto complete and see if you can get anything? > ie root (

RE: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub

2008-06-18 Thread Perumal, Muralitharan (IE10)
st Regards, Murali -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rafael Lopez Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:13 AM To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub The kernel was installed and chapter 8.4 was reac

Re: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub

2008-06-18 Thread D.Dreschers
Rafael Lopez wrote: > grub> root (hd0,0) > Error 21: Selected disk does not exist > > Actually, as long as I'm still within chroot, I cannot understand how > to "see" a disk and its partitions and/or how is grub going to "see" > the same. > Just in case you wonder about it, my box has only one har

Re: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub

2008-06-18 Thread Trent Shea
On 6/18/08, Rafael Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > grub> root (hd0,0) > Error 21: Selected disk does not exist > Please advise how to get out from this hole. > Thank you !! - Rafael Try to use tab to auto complete and see if you can get anything? ie root ( Trent. -- http://linuxfromscr

LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub

2008-06-18 Thread Rafael Lopez
The kernel was installed and chapter 8.4 was reached. After entering grub and issuing the root command -identifying the disk and partition where /boot is located as said in the book- this is is what I get: grub> root (hd0,0) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist Actually, as long as I'm still wi