LFS will not boot.

Ultranaut · 04-10-2016, 12:27 PM

So I've been working on LFS 7.9, and everything has been working perfectly until Chapter 9, where it asks me to reboot. When I do this, it simply reboots me back into my host distro(Ubuntu).

Background: I'm doing this on the same HDD as Ubuntu, here's my partition table:

Code:

Device        Start      End  Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1      2048  1054719  1052672  514M EFI System
/dev/sda2   1054720 40116223 39061504 18.6G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3  40116224 55740415 15624192  7.5G Linux swap
/dev/sda4  55740416 75272191 19531776  9.3G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda5  75272192 94803967 19531776  9.3G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda6  94803968 95008767   204800  100M BIOS boot

Sda4 is the root partition, sda5 is /home, and sda6 is /boot

ReaperX7 · 04-11-2016, 10:47 AM

You need to add LFS to the bootloader.

However, you're working off two different systems UEFI and BIOS. LFS hasn't targeted UEFI yet, so you may want to research how to install a UEFI boot manager like rEFInd to help you create the UEFI image that can be managed by Grub.

Also a BIOS boot partition shouldn't be mounted.

kcirick · 04-11-2016, 01:36 PM

Did you set up grub? What does your grub.cfg file look like? (should be in /boot/grub/grub.cfg)

Ultranaut · 04-16-2016, 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kcirick

Did you set up grub? What does your grub.cfg file look like? (should be in /boot/grub/grub.cfg)

Well, I just figured out why it wasn't working. All I had to do was change my host distro's grub settings to include my kernel configuration, so that works. I appreciate your help though.