i was upgrading glibc and now when i try to boot up, i get an error message that says that /dev/hda3 (lfs partition) was not cleanly unmounted, then it hangs up on "setting hostname to lfs"

i was doing a lot of stuff, and i think that i might have run /sbin/lilo from that (the wrong) partition, but i'm not sure. anybody know what i can do?

The quickest dirty way I can think of to fix LILO is get a copy of distro installer, RedHat and Slackware do a good job of this, let it load the kernel and get to the installation, flip to another terminal with a CTRL+ALT+F2, mount the root partition of where-ever the proper lilo is, chroot into that, and then fix/re-run lilo. If your box doesn't boot off of cdrom, there's always floppy Linuxs like Toms (which can't handle Reiser or Ext3 at last check, or just making a bootdisk for the distro CD.

Cheers,

Finegan

Okay, I checked, toms doesn't do reiser, and evidently never will, and will do ext3 but not for a while.

thanks for the help, i guess I somehow I screwed up the filesystem... I ran e2fsck and it seems to have been solved. what do you think i did to cause that to happen?

An improper unmount of the drive? Any number of things, make sure your LFS rc scripts are fine is the biggest thing I guess, also if I remember right, lfs doesn't run an automatic fsck in the case of an improper unmount does it?

Cheers,

Finegan