When booting my newly finished LFS system i get the following error:

Mounting proc file system...

Pretty much everything from this point fails.

Then....

pidof cannon execut mount
pidof: mount returned non-zero exit status
pidof: /proc not mounted, failed to mount

at which point it pauses for five minutes and then goes on to finish booting.

I think i have the relevant stuff compiled in the kernel and my fstab seems ok.

Could this be a problem with me not mounting the proc filesystem properly at the beginning of chapter 6? If so do i have to now go back to that point and install all the software again?

Any help much appreciated.

If you can get as far as a terminal, try executing the command to mount /proc from your login scripts. You need to know that the mount command works, and that procfs is compiled into the kernel.

The simplest explanation for this problem is that mount is being called as “mount” but it's containing directory isn't in your $PATH variable at that point in your start-up scripts. In which case, just give the full path to mount and it will be fine. Or, you can use something like:

Thanks for your help.

returns mount: command not found.

returns only the man entries.

It appears the command has not made it into LFS. Any ideas where i have gone wrong?

The Util-Linux package contains the mount utility, as well as whereis. It's also possible that mount's not been installed on the PATH (though unlikely, as whereis checks common directories).

I would try to recompile and reinstall Util-linux, noting in particular any errors that occur during compilation.

Thanks.

I found that none of the contents of utils-linux had made their way across so am re-installing it.

Do i need to repeat compilation of the kernel etc?

I can't see anything in Util-Linux util's provides list that would indicate that the kernel wouldn't compile properly without it, so I think you should be OK there, assuming the other packages were installed correctly.

Thankyou for your help. Re-installing seems to have sorted the problem.

I'm not getting a similar error for 'ifconfig' and 'route' so will go back and install net-utils. Thanks again.