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hi,

I (almost) finished the book, all that remains is booting. When I try to boot the LFS, it sais:

fsck.ext3:no such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda5

so I thought I could copy the device files from the host System. The problem is, I have running for over an hour now, and nothing happens, except that conky monitors a high disk io. Is there another possibility to obtain the device files?

dracayr

That command does not look like it is copying device files.....It is copying the entire contents of /dev/sda to $LFS/dev/sda. Without knowing the contents of the variable $LFS, it's hard to know exactly what is happening.

the command has terminated now (and it did copy the file). I am repeating the procedure now with the rest of the sda's

As this is the linux from scratch forum, $LFS is the path to the partition where the lfs is built

Edit: I guess you were right. /dev/sda worked fine, but when I try /dev/sda5, my partition slowly fills itself. But how do I get the files then?

dracayr

I am not clear on what you are trying to do. Your original post included this error message:
That would not be fixed by copying files from the /dev directory.

Where in the boot sequence did you get this message?

I'm on a different computer right now, but I'll say as much as I remember. This is about what I can see when the error occurs (before it goes too fast to read):

EDIT: Ok, changed it now to the actual values

that's quite strange because it says it mounted the root filesystems, but not sda5. Yet sda5 IS my root fs


dracayr