Having problems with LFS LiveCD

threekgtvr4 · 04-27-2006, 09:18 PM

Ok, I'm getting ready to build LFS. I have the 6.1.1-1 LiveCD. Ever since I tried running FireFox from the command line, I can't get the disk to boot properly, if at all. Although once in a while it will boot properly then possibly mess up.

Once in awhile it will boot correctly and I won't have any problems with it. But more often than not, I get errors.

The error I get if it goes through the boot up process (or if it does actually boot, and I'm doing something, when it gets to the the 'Using "nv" as a driver' part, I get an error that looks like this:

Code:

hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: media error (bad sector): error=0x34 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x03 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector some number

Sometimes it will also have:

Code:

Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block some number

at the end

After every other one of those (as this message repeats with a new some number a lot) it says:

Code:

printk: 1 messages suppressed.

THEN... The messages won't ALL print out to the screen until I hit Ctrl+Scroll Lock. At which point it finishs out what it started and the end looks like this:

Code:

                             sibling
task   PC       pid father child younger older
init D C05A6C00 0     1      0     2           (NOTLB)
c7f5d99c 00000082 c11759b0 c05a6c00 c11759ac 00000758 c015f80c c7cfd2ec
       starts here, another line of the same
       another line of the same
Call Trace:
 [<c015f80c>]--------[ cut here ]-----------
kernel BUG at kernel/kallsyms.c:174!
invalid operand: 0000 [#3]
PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c013a679>]   Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010046    (2.6.12.5)
--------------[ cut here ]--------------
kernel BUG at kernel/kallsyms.c:174!
invalid operand: 0000 [#4]
PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c013a679>]   Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010046   (2.6.12.5)
Recursive die() failure, output suppressed
 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

WHEW!!!! That's the very end at which point I have to hard boot the computer as it won't do ANYTHING. Hard booting is all I can do and try to boot into the disk again. Once in awhile it will boot fine and I can do whatever. But I usually I get that. Especially if I try to put:

Code:

linux vga=792

at the boot prompt on the boot screen. I like working where it doesn't look like the screen is right in my face.

I didn't think you could screw up the LiveCD (if there's a way to do it, I found that way, lol). Or could this be an issue with the DVD ROM itself?

Do you guys know what's going on? Do you need more info than that? Could I have screwed up the LiveCD???

Thanks for any help, I'd really like to get to building sometimes soon.

win32sux · 04-28-2006, 05:20 PM

sounds like a bad burn... try burning the CD again... also, make sure you use "-pad" when you burn the ISO...

threekgtvr4 · 04-28-2006, 11:56 PM

Problem is, I never burned the CD. I bought it, and it worked WONDERFULLY for 4-5 days. It only started messing up after I tried starting FireFox from the command line... :-\

I tried today and the disk booted great if I just hit enter at the LFS boot screen. But if I tried to type in "linux vga=792" to get the monitor into 1024x768 size, it came up with that error I posted earlier. And since I only have dial-up, I REALLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYY don't want to spend 20+ hours downloading (or spend another $6) to get it working flawlessly again....

Is there nothing I can do??? If only downloading the ISO or buying the disc again, I suppose I will deal with working on the system as I can, when I can. And hopefully it won't screw everything up in the process (which I don't think it will...

win32sux · 04-29-2006, 12:01 AM

if it works fine with the normal vga i'd suggest sticking to that... might be a bug in the live cd or something... either way, you could always ditch the cd and use your current distro as the host... i'm building LFS 6.1.1 right now using slackware 10.2 as the host and everything is going beautifully so far... knock on wood...

threekgtvr4 · 04-29-2006, 12:56 AM

Not EVERY time does it boot fine in if I just hit enter from the boot screen. But it does have a tendency to boot better (all the way through and work fine) more often if I do it that way. If it's something I have to live with, I will just live with it, its not THAT much of a biggie, just a personal preference more than anything.

And as a side note, the live cd is the only system I have. I'm still learning linux as is. I think I have a decent enough handle on Linux itself to actually start the build, so I'm going ahead with it, as I want to actually see what goes into a Linux distro.