I'm following the tutorial from Linux from Scratch and I've done all the compiling needed and everything seemed to go according to plan. I'm stuck now on the very last thing they ask you to do which is make the hard drive bootable.

Here is the page of the tutorial that I'm on:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/...er08/grub.html

It tells me to run the following command:
So I've run:
When I do this, I get a an error saying: "Segmentation Fault"

Am I doing something wrong? This is running on a VMWare ESX 3.5 server incase that helps any bit. Thanks!

First you say you are running on a VMWare server, are you running this on the host or in a container? I'm fairly certain you should do this only from a host.

Second try grub-setup /dev/sda

Jim.

Well, it is a it's a vmware host. It's the vmware esx which is the bare hypervisor.

I tried using /dev/sda and I tried inside the single quotes and without:

I didn't see where you tried it without the quote marks. In any case do an
fdisk -l

That will tell you what the name of the hard drives are.

You might have /dev/hda instead. Fdisk will tell you for sure.

You are running as root (su) right?

Jim.

I've figured out what was wrong because of your help so thank you! there was no files listed in the /proc/ folder so I reverted back to before I compiled the kernel and more importantly before I restarted the virtual machine. When I did that, there were files listed in the /proc/ folder.

So, I ran all the commands that were asked except for the "/sbin/reboot" command and the "grub-setup '(hd0)'" command worked.

I'm still getting a kernel panic when I restart but at least the hard drive is bootable. I'm pretty sure it has to do with the modules I've changed (or rather not changed) in the kernel config. Thanks again!