Good bye to LFS

business_kid · 05-08-2024, 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hazel

It's all Intel inside. In any case, the initial output from the kernel wouldn't be readable if the video driver had failed. And we're talking basic svga here, not graphics.

But I've been going over the book and have noticed something. istr that in the earlier lfs versions, the /dev directory had a couple of static nodes put into it when it was created. I can't recall what they were, but they were apparently necessary to allow the creation of all the dynamic nodes at boot. And I can't find them in this version of the book. I wonder if they are still needed. Probably not, because my AntiX partition doesn't have them either.

If memory serves, they were /dev/console & /dev/null. I booted without them once in years gon by, and bad things did happen, but I can't remember what.

If you have no initrd, but can see the bootloader, you should surely be ok until / is mounted read only without any framebuffer stuff, shouldn't you? Then /lib/modules can be raided for all requirements.

bryan_S · 05-08-2024, 01:38 PM

Do you have this line in your fstab? (i'm assuming you're using sysvinit):

Code:

cgroup2        /sys/fs/cgroup cgroup2  nosuid,noexec,nodev 0     0

If not, that's your problem. One of the issues with building udev from the systemd tarball - instead of eudev.

hazel · 05-08-2024, 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bryan_S

Do you have this line in your fstab? (i'm assuming you're using sysvinit):

Code:

cgroup2        /sys/fs/cgroup cgroup2  nosuid,noexec,nodev 0     0

If not, that's your problem. One of the issues with building udev from the systemd tarball.

Just checked. Yes I do have it so that's not the problem.

hazel · 05-09-2024, 06:21 AM

Just booted my first bisection kernel. When I configured it, I built in the Intel framebuffer driver (which was a module before). That improved things dramatically! It gets as far as loading klogd now before it halts.