Hello all.

I just want to first say it's a pleasure to find such a wonderful resource for linux help.

that being said Id like to try and absorb some of that said help

I am having issues booting my LFS system on my hp nc8230 notebook running LFS SVN

grub was built and installed per the book

my file system is almost as simple as it gets

/dev/sda1 is swap
/dev/sda2 is my LFS partition /

the LFS live cd still uses the now deprecated drivers for HDD's thus as far as the livecd is concerned my block devices is (hd0) and /dev/hda2 for the root respectively.

however the kernel to be booted runs on the newer drivers thus on boot my block device should be referenced as /dev/sda2 for the root

grub is in fact installed on the MBR what happens is right when my system boots i get a file not found error the grub CFG is pointing to the correct block device and root partition from what can be seen by looking at the grub.cfg im a bit stumpped

anyideas?

The issue seem to be located in the /boot/grub/device.map file where it was still referencing /dev/hda. this would be an issue as the system to be booted has different kernel settings thus as stated before changes the name of the HDD to sda

made the change and bingo we are booting

Good stuff, cheers for coming back with the update

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