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Old 10-31-2014, 04:51 PM   #16
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Can u please answer with bit more details regarding umount and checking whether chrooted into LFS. Coz I really don't want to mess up more
 
Old 10-31-2014, 04:56 PM   #17
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just reboot your host system then chroot in,

In lfs / you will have a sources dir so that will be lfs
 
Old 10-31-2014, 04:57 PM   #18
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Now, I rebooted and set LFS and chroot. I get failed to run command usr/bin/env. No such file ore directory.
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Old 10-31-2014, 05:10 PM   #19
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did you mount /dev/sdXX to /mnt/lfs
 
Old 10-31-2014, 05:14 PM   #20
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Mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/lfs right ?
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Old 10-31-2014, 05:18 PM   #21
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yes

And echo $LFS
 
Old 10-31-2014, 05:24 PM   #22
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I followed these steps..

Mount /mnt/lfs /dev/sda5
Then all the steps in 6.2.2 and 6.2.3 which includes an export to LFS.
Then I chroot to it.
Then type passed root and I got the above output
You have the mount arguments back to front it should be
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mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/lfs
A good way to remember which way round they go is 'mount somthing somewhere'
 
Old 10-31-2014, 05:25 PM   #23
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I successfully reset the password, now I'm not able to login after boot
Login - lfs ( guessing its default, otherwise I don't remember giving a login name )
Password - the one I set now
 
Old 10-31-2014, 05:26 PM   #24
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you can check whether you chrooted or not by running 'mount' command.
Just type 'mount' without any options. It will show you mounted filesystems. Check its output for string that starts with "/dev/sda5 on / type..." If you have it in 'mount' output it means you are chrooted.
 
Old 10-31-2014, 05:29 PM   #25
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I observed this while my previous password was set, I typed my password in the login name to check. And it was printing z instead of z.
Note - that was my previous passwd
 
Old 10-31-2014, 05:29 PM   #26
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If you can login as root now you can change lfs user passwd the same way
as root passwd lfs

"Hi Keith"
 
Old 10-31-2014, 05:50 PM   #27
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Hi spike didn't miss much by the looks of it
 
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I still have trouble logging in..
 
Old 10-31-2014, 06:07 PM   #29
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I still have trouble logging in..
What sprt of trouble? If you have npt mount ed the lfs partitipn cprrect;y because you got the args to mount back to front you may have fubar'ed somthing try again but this ttime with the correct arguments to mount, if in doubt check the man page, sorry for the bad typing i'm on my tablet, damn stupid tiny keys!
 
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I successfully reset the password, now I'm not able to login after boot
Login - lfs ( guessing its default, otherwise I don't remember giving a login name )
Password - the one I set now

I observed this while my previous password was set, I typed my password in the login name to check. And it was printing z instead of z.
Note - that was my previous passwd
 
  


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