At the end of Book 5.32 Changing Ownership I was warned to 'check that $LFS is set in root's environment'. I did NOT check and only realized it AFTER starting the chroot building. I.E. I did all of 6.2 instrucions and then when I got to 6.4 and ran:
i got error "chroot: cannot change root directory to: No such file...

I then checked enviornment: echo $LFS and got nothing.

So I did the export LFS=/mnt/lfs. Echo returns /mnt/lfs.

So then I repeated the commands in 6.2:
mkdir -pv $LFS/{dev,proc,sys}
mknod <rest of command>
mknod <rest of command>
BUT NOW the problem
mount --bind /dev $LFS/dev
gives error: can't create lock file /etc/mtab-23612: No such file or directory....etc.

I assume that my prolems are the result of entering the above BEFORE setting the $LFS enviornment FROM ROOT.

Does anyone know if I can fix this problem without having to start from "scratch"?

Hi,

Your initial approach is correct, you also need to do this if you reboot during chapter 6. But I don't know if it is possible to remount part of the file system to a third place (mount --bind /dev $LFS/dev => create a mirror of a directory or mount point to some other location).

You could try to unmount $LFS/dev: umount $LFS/dev and then try the original command again.

It will work after a reboot, but you need to set up some other things too (see this LFS hint for pointers. Document is a bit outdated, so check it against the current documentation.).

I would try the umount option first.

Hope this helps.

Tried umount $LFS/dev but just tells me can't open /etc/mtab...and /mnt/lfs/dev not mounted.

Looks like I'll have to try the reboot method described in hints section. Yep, it is outdated so while I can hope, I won't be surprised if it does'nt work out.

If I discover anything worthwhile I'll post the results.

Thanks for your help.

ron

drunna

Success with the info in the "hint" section you suggested.

The info for starting from boot to get to section 6.1 worked verbatim.

Whew!! Moving along again.

Thanks much.

ron

drunna

Spoke too soon about success.

Got to the point of installing the package, linux-header patch and discoverd that the link to /sources is broken. The source packages are there under the new 'root' /sources but not able to get there with the Book instruction to patch -Np1 -i ../linux-libc- <etc>..

So I'm going to bite the bullet and start from scratch (again!!!). I'm just not knowledgeable enough to stray from the Book path.

Frustrating but it's very good experience in any event and learning alot.

cheers, ron