Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread Matijn Woudt
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > spiky wrote: > >> If I was to go back to ext3 would that mean a complete rebuild or is it >> possible to use gparted? > > Create a new partition > > mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda? > mount /dev/sda? /mnt > mkdir /mnt/{bin,dev,home,lib,mnt,proc,sys,usr}

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
spiky wrote: > If I was to go back to ext3 would that mean a complete rebuild or is it > possible to use gparted? Create a new partition mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda? mount /dev/sda? /mnt mkdir /mnt/{bin,dev,home,lib,mnt,proc,sys,usr} mkdir /mnt/{boot,etc,media,opt,root,sbin,srv,tmp,var} for d in bin

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread spiky
On 13/11/11 17:12, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:36:34 + spiky wrote: Ok I used grub prompt it showed the usb drive hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). then entered set root=(hd0,msdos) That seems right. The msdos part is the boot record type, not a par

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread spiky
On 13/11/11 17:12, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: >> On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:36:34 + >> spiky wrote: >> >>> Ok I used grub prompt it showed the usb drive >>> hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). >>> then entered set root=(hd0,msdos) > That seems right. The msdos part is the boot rec

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:36:34 + > spiky wrote: > >> Ok I used grub prompt it showed the usb drive >> hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). >> then entered set root=(hd0,msdos) That seems right. The msdos part is the boot record type, not a partition type, >> linux /b

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread spiky
On 13/11/11 12:38, spiky wrote: > On 13/11/11 12:36, Alain Toussaint wrote: >>> hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). >> ^^ >> >> Could it be that the partition is FAT32 instead of ext(2,3,4)? >> >> Alain >> > I formatted the partition with gparted to ext4 swap is swap home ext4 > >

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread spiky
On 13/11/11 12:36, Alain Toussaint wrote: >> hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). >^^ > > Could it be that the partition is FAT32 instead of ext(2,3,4)? > > Alain > I formatted the partition with gparted to ext4 swap is swap home ext4 Martyn -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman

RE: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread Alain Toussaint
> hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). ^^ Could it be that the partition is FAT32 instead of ext(2,3,4)? Alain -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread spiky
On 13/11/11 11:50, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:36:34 + > spiky wrote: > >> Ok I used grub prompt it showed the usb drive >> hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). >> then entered set root=(hd0,msdos) >> linux /boot/vmlinux-3.1-7.0 (it found with tab)root=/devsda1 >> boot >> i g

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:36:34 + spiky wrote: > Ok I used grub prompt it showed the usb drive > hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). > then entered set root=(hd0,msdos) > linux /boot/vmlinux-3.1-7.0 (it found with tab)root=/devsda1 > boot > i get > "no filesystem could mount root tried ext 3 ,

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread spiky
On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 01:26 +, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:53:11 + > spiky wrote: > > > I have built lfs7 with linux 3.1rc4. I cant boot it when on sdc. If > > drive is put in laptop on IDE it will boot. I have set the fstab & > > grub.cfg in lots of different ways sti

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:53:11 + spiky wrote: > I have built lfs7 with linux 3.1rc4. I cant boot it when on sdc. If > drive is put in laptop on IDE it will boot. I have set the fstab & > grub.cfg in lots of different ways still no joy, > grub.cfg > > # Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg > set default

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
spiky wrote: > I have tried setting root to hd0,1 and setting boot to sda1 just incase > it looked at it as the 1st boot option, I,m not sure it is a grub fault > as when I ran grub update from Ubuntu it still wont boot. > When you say get the command line to recognise the usb it appears in >

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-12 Thread spiky
On 12/11/11 23:17, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > spiky wrote: >> I have built lfs7 with linux 3.1rc4. I cant boot it when on sdc. If >> drive is put in laptop on IDE it will boot. I have set the fstab& >> grub.cfg in lots of different ways still no joy, >> grub.cfg >> >> # Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg >> set d

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
spiky wrote: > I have built lfs7 with linux 3.1rc4. I cant boot it when on sdc. If > drive is put in laptop on IDE it will boot. I have set the fstab & > grub.cfg in lots of different ways still no joy, > grub.cfg > > # Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg > set default=0 > set timeout=5 > > insmod ext2 >

built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-12 Thread spiky
I have built lfs7 with linux 3.1rc4. I cant boot it when on sdc. If drive is put in laptop on IDE it will boot. I have set the fstab & grub.cfg in lots of different ways still no joy, grub.cfg # Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg set default=0 set timeout=5 insmod ext2 set root=(hd2,1) menuentry "GNU/L