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31-Oct-2004, 12:44 PM #1
Booting new LFS troubles
I recently just finished following the installation instructions of Linux From Scratch 5.1.1. When I go to boot to the partition that it is on, /dev/hda7, it just stays on "Uncompressing linux.... Ok, booting the kernel." But, the computer thinks real hard like linux is loading, just not displaying it. I'm using lilo 22. The way I have lilo setup is that on my main linux partition I have that lilo installed to the MBR and just say for the lfs partition: other=/dev/hda7 label="LFS". Then, on the LFS partition I have lilo just saying:
image=/boot/lfskernel
read-only
root=/dev/hda7
label="LFS5.1.1"
I tried it with just one lilo in the MBR but the same thing happened. So, I looked around and read somewhere that having a lilo on the LFS and MBR would do it, but apparently it doesn't. Any suggestions would be amazing.
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31-Oct-2004, 06:19 PM #2
If I had to take a guess, i'd say that something's screwy in your kernel. Try going through the configuration again, and looking for graphical options, like framebuffer etc. (And disabling them. For now you want plainjane console)
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31-Oct-2004, 07:13 PM #3
I forgot to mention that I already fixed that. At first (before my first post) I had VGA enabled console and framebuffer enabled. Then, when trying to boot, it would just freeze on a blank screen. The kernel I'm using now is pretty much APCI, filesystems, and chipset drivers. I have tried several different configurations. Also, just to be sure that it isn't my compiler, I compiled it a couple times with gcc-2.95 and a couple times with gcc-3.3. After each try, I deleted the System.map, and the kernel image in /boot and did a make mrproper.
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31-Oct-2004, 10:59 PM #4
tried booting acpi=off?
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01-Nov-2004, 02:00 PM #5
Actually, I went the whole 9 yards and just rebuilt my kernel without acpi enabled or any knind of power management. But, no didn't fix it.
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