Don't make your bootable an extended (I don't think this will work if I remember right), and why is swap first? Do yourself a favor, and unless dealing with windoze, just make your bootable the first partiton. Give it 250mb, make it /boot, done. Get jiggy with it any other way from there. That'll support raid, crypto, lvm, btrfs, zfs, or whatever else you want to do as long as there's always a clean /boot first and modules are hooked in your initrd. -mb On 07/25/2014 02:59 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > Cool... it seems a more recent version of cfdisk will create > filesystems but the version of cfdisk on the host system won't. How > can I get that version? I tried to apt-get (thinking it was a more > recent version) it but it couldn't find cfdisk and the package it > comes in is already the most recent version. Could I download and > compile it? or do you think cfdisk was modified by the distribution > (mx14) it came on? > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Michael Havens > wrote: > > I was so excited! I installed the debian syatem but when I tried > to mount the LFS partition it said > > "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda9, > missing codepage or helper program, or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so" > > then as I was trying to investigate the LFS partitions cfdisk > wouldn't even start and fdisk kept saying > > "Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be > corrected by w(rite)" > > Writing didn't correct the problem so instead of bugging you I > figured that this might have something to do with the fact that I > set the LFS partitions up when I installed debian. So I > reinstalled debian w/o setting up the LFS partitions and now now > cfdisk starts and I set the partitions up. But it won't let me > create the file system. this is what happens: > > root@debian:~# mkfs -v -t ext4 /dev/sda6 > mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) > Could not stat /dev/sda6 --- No such file or directory > The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly? > > root@debian:~# fdisk /dev/sda > Command (m for help): p > Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders, total 488281250 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x0007bc26 > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 2048 7813119 3905536 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > /dev/sda2 7815166 488281249 240233042 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 * 7815168 105469951 48827392 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 437499848 476569864 19535008+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 476569928 488281249 5855661 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > > as you can see the device does exist. sda1 is swap for the debian > system which is in sda5. sda6 is going to be the LFS system and > sda7 is going to be the swap for LFS when I get done. > > Please, what did I do wrong or else what is the problem? > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Michael Havens > wrote: > > well..... I just realized that there must be a reason that > the glibc line was commented out in the LFS book so I'm not > going to worry about it. regarding your line I did enter it > and it returned nothing. then I re-read the the text > concerning that and it finally dawned on me..... I want all of > them or none of them and if I only had 1 or two of them it is > okay to delete the ones that are there. I get there.... even > if it does take me a little longer. I wish this wasn't the > case but at least I can blame the head injury for the > difficulties. I'll start working on it when I get home from > work tonight. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:27 AM, > wrote: > > Michael, have you even looked at what is in line 32 of > your version-check.sh? > Among other things, because 'glibc' is more than a program > (it is more like the whole engine running under the hood), > and your system would not even boot up is you don't have > 'glibc' (which is a whole lot system) > You'll learn that as you read LFS. > Did you ever try: > find /lib/ /*/lib/ -name lib${X}.la > ET > > Michael Havens writes: > > well, I didn't have a problem getting these files with > a standard > installation of debian; it was only after I tried with > a net install of > debia. So right now I'm downloading a current dvd iso > of debian and after > the install I'll see if that helps. > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Michael Havens > > wrote: > > well I installed gmp the way it instructed and > then I did a search for > mpfr on the same website and installed it as well, > but couldn't find gibc > or mpc. I was going to do a search for the missing > files but figured I > would run version-check first to ensure I wasn't > just spinning my wheels. > It appears the two files were not installed > correctly enough for LInux from > Scratch. > gmp > > ~$ bash version-check.sh > ---truncate--- > version-check.sh: line 32: glibc: command not found > g++ compilation OK > libgmp.la : found > libmpfr.la : found > libmpc.la : not found > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Stephen > Partington > > wrote: > > this is what it is after: > GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library > The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library > is a free library for > arbitrary-precision arithmetic, operating on > signed integers, rational > numbers, and floating point numbers. > http://petio.org/tools/gmp.html has some nice > refrence material as well. > *Snip* > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm > clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you > hit the snooze button. > Stephen > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your > mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss