hey guys. i've some errors when starting up lfs

heres what i did: installed everything up to chapter 9 correctly, but I forgot to read chapter 9 and didnt unmount $LFS and $LFS/proc (if that matters) also, i have not stripped the debug values

I have my current distro on hda and am installing lfs on hdb5, swap is on hdb3

any advice? thanks.

Well it says it can't stat /dev/hdb3 because the file doesn't exist. Did you run MAKEDEV? What have you got in the /dev directory?

i'm pretty sure i did that, i have hdb and hdb1-hdb20

Hmm well somehow they seem to be not present when you are booting your system. I've never really used devfs but could it be a conflict with it trying to use that?

You could always try booting directly into a shell and skip the whole init process. Then you can look around and see if the files it needs are present.

ok, i'll compile without devfs. also, will this solve my second error? thanks.

Well the first one mentions no such file or directory for /dev/hdb3
And the second one says no such file or directory for /dev/hdb6

So I'm pretty sure solving one would resolve the other too.

okay, i recompiled the kernel without devfs using the Installing Linux-2.4.19 instructions in chapter 8, and did the instructions up to the end of chapter 8, unmounted and rebooted. now, when i choose lfs in LILO, right after it uncompresses the kernel image it says something like

and halts the system, what did i do this time?

thanks.

(btw, when compiling the kernel i only added in options and did not take any out)

Did you copy your new kernel over to the /boot directory(or partition) and then run lilo to reinstall the image to the MBR?

Cool

yea, i did

and and also copied the configuration things into lfs

thanks

Well it doesn't print that message after it's uncompressed the kernel but while it's uncompressing it. You might want to check your lilo.conf file again and make sure it's pointing to the right locations. Double check if the kernel you are pointing to is the one you actually copied.

If you are sure you got everything right and it's still giving you errors you might want to try posting your lilo.conf file.

By the way do you have a .config file from the kernel of your main system. You might want to copy that to your lfs kernel and then run make oldconfig. That way you should at least be able to start off with a config that you know works. You can add/delete options after that and recompile.

thanks for the help Mik and MasterC, it turns out that I didn't run some lilo commands

now i find that my network isn't detected and i can't mount my cdrom because i haven't set it up, back to reading.

thanks!