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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!news.jhu.edu!aplcenmp!netnews.jhuapl.edu!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!tecsun1.tec.army.mil!pooh.tec.army.mil!anneb From: anneb@pooh.tec.army.mil (Anne Brink) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: LFS problems under FreeBSD 2.1 Date: 14 Apr 1996 01:57:35 GMT Organization: U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center, Alexandria, VA Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4kpm2f$jj7@tecsun1.tec.army.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: pooh.tec.army.mil Summary: crash X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:738 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17381 I'm trying, for a term project, to play with LFS under FreeBSD. I'm not getting very far, since I'm having trouble with my kernel panicking pretty much directly after I do a mount_lfs of the partition. What panic messages I get aren't consistent at this point, and I want to check to make sure my configuration's correct before I start having to run debuggers on kernel corefiles. The documentation in either FreeBSD or BSD4.4 is rather slight, so I'm not sure what to look for. I'm running: FreeBSD 2.1 on an Acer P75, 8MB RAM. The disks I'm using are IDE. Here are some questions that I hope someone can help me with. I've rebuilt the kernel with the (seemingly undocumented in FreeBSD) option LFS. Is there anything else my kernel needs built in that I'm likely missing? What should the disklabel entry look like, for the LFS partition? Currently, It looks identical to the 4.2BSD partitions, except the fs type is '4.4LFS'. Should it have 0's for blocks, etc. just like the 4.2BSD partitions? It's not clear from the manpage, when I do a newlfs, just which options are required, and which are optional. And, in a related question, does the partition need to end on cylinder boundaries on an IDE drive? Is there an FAQ out there I haven't found, yet? Thanks in advance for answers for any of these questions! -Anne Brink anneb@svl.tec.army.mil -- "The only thing more frightening than a programmer with a screwdriver or a hardware engineer with a program is a user with a pair of wire cutters and the root password." -E. Zwicky. -----Self-proclaimed programmer with screwdriver, beware-----------------------