Hi am a little confused at a step in chapter 8.3 Linux-2.6.37

where i have to use the following command :

make LANG=<host_LANG_value> LC_ALL= menuconfig

what should i replace the LANG value with coz

echo $LANG shows up blank and so does echo $LC_ALL

and should i leave rest of the command as it is ??

Hi,

Ignore the LANG setting, in this case it is only used to beautify the menu's that menuconfig presents.

Just use: make menuconfig instead.

Hope this helps.

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Hey thanks for replying umm... went on along by changing the below command with

make LANG=<host_LANG_value> LC_ALL= menuconfig

with

make LANG=$LC_ALL LC_ALL= menuconfig

is that ok??

but will follow up if i get any errors thanx

Hi,
If LC_ALL is empty to start with, it will do nothing and will probably work. But I wouldn't use the LANG/LC_ALL setting at all in this case (as already mentioned).

Hope this helps.

Hey druuna,

It seemed it worked question about 8.4.2

the command grub-install --grub-setup=/bin/true /dev/sda

says grub-install unknown command ??

Hi,

Before going into the specific grub question I have a question for you:

Do you need to install grub?

I'm asking because you do not mention if you share LFS with another, already installed, distribution (setting up a multi-boot system) or if this is done in a virtual machine or .....

If you do already have a working distro, grub is already present and you do not need to install it in LFS. The only thing you need to do is add an entry to your grub.cfg on your already installed distro.

Realize that if you _do_ install grub in LFS you'll overwrite the one that is installed with your other distro!! If you remove LFS at a later point you do need to re-install grub in your other distro.

If you still have doubts; Post some details about how and where LFS is installed so we can point you in the right direction.

Hope this helps.

My LFS is on a virtual machine and does not have any other OS on it ...its hda1 according to cfdisk ....and is root as the new environment created.

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i would rather prefer grub2 actually

Hi,

If you are sure that hda is used instead of sda, you need to change the grub-install command to: This is also true for all the other times sda is mentioned in the LFS document.

You do mention that there is an error message saying something like: grub-install unknown command. Did anything go wrong during the install of grub (chapter 6.44. GRUB-1.98)? Check if grub-install is present (from the top of my head: /usr/sbin/).

Another thing: You are still inside the chrooted environment when setting up grub? (you should be).

Grub 1.98 is grub2

Hope this helps.

umm ... i just checked /usr/sbin/ ...grub-install is not present ... what should i do ..? and yes i am chrooted enviroment as root

and according to the LFS book 6.8 hda1 should b sda1 right for grub?

using fdisk -l command hda1 is bootable

Hi,
Install grub as stated in chapter 6.44 (from within the chrooted environment). Do check afterwards if the grub executables are present. And after that try 8.3 again.

Both sda and hda are used, but sda is more common. That's why sda is used in the LFS book (you using a virtual machine might complicate things a bit, but that is a later concern if it shows up at all).

Hope this helps.

Hey the test /sbin/reboot command reboots but starts up LFS CD ...and if i exit the cd then it just gives fatal error ??

Hi,
What are you trying to do?

LFS isn't bootable yet (grub isn't present and configured). You need to boot from the liveCD, mount $LFS, do the points mentioned in chapter 6.4 (do read the Note!!!). At this point you can install grub and continue with 8.4 (configure grub).

Hope this helps.