Questions tagged [lfs]
(LFS) - Linux From Scratch is a Linux distribution that you build from source (scratch) piece by piece.
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LFS libstdc failed - make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop
I am on chapter 5 of LFS. I am trying to compile LibSTDC. After cd'ing into the build directory I created and running:
../libstdc++-v3/configure \
--host=$LFS_TGT \
--build=$(../config.guess) \
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LFS Chapter 5.5 - Installing Glibc - cannot find /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 inside /mnt/lfs
For some background, everything related to LFS has worked so far. After make-installing glibc, I ran these commands to sanity check:
echo 'int main(){}' | $LFS_TGT-gcc -xc -
readelf -l a.out | grep ld-...
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Grub Install x86_64-efi doesn't exist - LFS
I've been following along with the stable systemd Linux from Scratch and have got to the final chapter where we configure grub to make the system bootable.
So I've run grub-install /dev/sda1 (/dev/...
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Beyond Linux from scratch 11.3 p11-kit not installing using Freebl library
I am going through the BLFS manual. I installed p11-kit-0.24.1 successfully. I then went on to install NSS-3.88.1 also successfully. When I went back to install p11-kit to make use of NSS, ninja ...
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Generate ISO based on LFS image disk file
After finish building a LFS system, installed on a IMG file (system.img) and being able to run the system with qemu with the command:
qemu-system-x86_64 -hda system.img -vga std -m 4G
I want now ...
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Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)
I have created a image file with this commands:
dd if=/dev/zero of=linux.img bs=16M count=1024
cfdisk linux.img
mkfs.ext4 linux.img
and installed a linux system following the instructions from the ...
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rtw8822 firware does not load for custom kernel
Hi I am building Linux From Scratch, I managed to get a working linux! but now I cannot get wlan0 working. When I boot ubuntu I can see the wifi is rtw8822be, so I enabled it in .config, recompiled ...
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Bash stopped working after touching some files, can I recover from it? (LFS)
I am doing as a project for my university; the first phase is to build LFS with some extras; the last requirement I have to meet is to show the prompt, and there I found that I still had to do all the ...
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Unable to mount root filesystem in LFS
Lately, I've been building an LFS [Linux From Scratch] system for my Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer, and I'm currently on the very last step. I'm attempting to compile Linux 5.19.2 from the ...
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Black screen when loading linux kernel on laptop
I built the linux kernel in LFS and grub works, but when I load the linux kernel the screen just becomes black and nothing happens after that. What should I do? Im on a laptop btw if that matters. ...
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EFI won't load linux kernel in LFS
Lately, I've been building an LFS [Linux From Scratch] system for my Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer, and I'm currently on the very last step. I'm attempting to compile Linux 5.15 from the ...
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Why pass "--prefix=/usr" to configure scripts in Linux from Scratch builds?
Why in Linux from scratch they are passing --prefix=/usr to configure scripts?
For example here is the glibc configure script
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Testing gcc command in Linux From Scratch?
Linux From Scratch tells me to run these commands to test that the new toolchain is working:
echo 'int main(){}' | gcc -xc -
readelf -l a.out | grep ld-linux
So since I am testing the new toolchain, ...
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How are binary packages isolated from host system?
How are binary packages (rpm, deb, etc) created for binutils, gcc and other packages that link to different libs depending on what exists on the host system?
In the LFS project, to isolate the new ...
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Reinstalling Windows 11 after LFS 11.2 has been built
I have my Product ID ready at hand. So, how would I install Windows 11 Home after I build LFS 11.2? I haven't started building yet... since I needed to be prepared for installing Windows 11 without ...
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Segmentation Fault when entering chroot for LFS
I have been compiling an LFS [Linux From Scratch] operating system, and thus far there were no errors. However, when I was compiling the Linux Kernel, I accidentally tripped on the power cord to my PC ...
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Error with Systemd in LFS
LFS version: 11.0-systemd
Host: Ubuntu20.04
Chapter in which the problem occurred: 9.5
Commands executed: timedatectl set-local-rtc 1
Error log:
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (...
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GRUB2: error: disk `(hd0,)' not found
I had almost finished Linux From Scratch ; However, when I tried to started the new LFS system. GRUB couldn't launch the system:
error: disk `(hd0,)' not found.
Then I used grub> ls
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Linux from Scratch 11.1 Systemd edition: ERROR: Dependency "mount" not found, tried pkgconfig
So when I tried to install systemd-250 with LFS 11.1 systemd edition, it threw an error. Not much I can give, except the logs, and the fact that when I typed in the 'mount' command in the LFS chroot, ...
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Linux from Scratch - readline-8.1.2 throwing an error
I was on my way with installing Linux from Scratch, when I was told to compile and install readline-8.1.2, in chapter 8.11, in LFS 11.1 systemd edition.
I then went and got some old versions of ...
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Sfdisk NVME issue, No such device or address
I have custom LFS installer which contains sfdisk, I am trying to add support for NVME disks on it. When I make partitions with sfdisk on a normal SATA disk, things go as expected but when I do the ...
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Has the Debian kernel been modified and Linux From Scratch FAQ not been updated?
I was building an LFS (Linux From Scratch) system, and up until now, there have been absolutely no errors. However, when installing the "expect" package, make test errored out with:The ...
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How to Create ISO / Installation Image from Our Own LFS(Linux From Scratch) Operating System in Qemu? I want to Make my Qemu.qcow2 image my Host OS
I want to ask how to create an ISO, my OS is made with LFS 11.0 System V and I install it in Qemu. My Host OS is CAELinux.
The main concern is:
Is it possible to move the LFS OS installed in Qemu to ...
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Auto detect network interface card, network init.d
I have build my LFS linux that based in this book, it's working fine and network interface card is working. Even it's configuring IP automatically with using dhcpcd service.
According chapter 9 in ...
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Linux From Scratch/LFS 11.0 Systemd kernel boots to black screen
I have a new build of LFS 11.0-systemd on a bare metal Thinkpad X250. Everything is compiled and setup with Fedora 36 as the host system. I'm using BIOS boot mode.
The system boots to GRUB, but when I ...
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annoying clocksource alert/warning in bash prompt periodically
So I just build LFS system and it's working fine, but the annoying part is there's alert that every periode show like every 3 second.
It said
root@LFS:# clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU0: ...
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Kernel Panic: VFS cannot open root device or unknown block - Linux - LFS 11.0
First of all I understand there are many similar questions had been asked on many forms but those all are really not helping in my case.
I'm using Ubuntu 20 on vmware workstation. in that vmware I ...
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Perform backup (and restore) from my current LFS (Linux From Scratch) progress with dd command
I have my LFS proyek, currently I'm in chapter 10 so far according this book https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter10/grub.html .
I want to perform backup of my LFS progress so if ...
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checking whether the C compiler works... no
I'm trying to build Linux From Scratch (LFS)
I'm just following this books https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter08/eudev.html
I have this error after I run ./configure in eudev ...
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Make a virtualbox hard drive from virtual block device
I'm trying to create LFS (linux from scratch) but copying to usb is so slow so I created a virtual disk file of 3GB using created partition and formatted to ext4.
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=./lfs.img bs=...
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Linux From Scratch 11 can not verify any SSL certificates
I have built an LFS 11.0 system and installed wget from the BLFS book. I also have openssl and gnutls installed, but whenever do wget for a site with ssl, it says it can't verify the cert. It does ...
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Install GRUB on LFS USB drive
I have built a Linux From Scratch system onto a flash drive with the kernel and everything. When I boot into it via the GRUB instance on the host computer's hard drive, it works fine. I would like to ...
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LFS Chapter 3.1 zsh: command not found: wget
Hi I am making LFS on Black Arch VM. I am currently at Chapter 3.1 I ran command wget https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/11.0/wget-list But I got error zsh: command not found: wget. I run ...
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Kernel cannot find init
I am learning to build a linux from scratch systemd edition, following the instructions at https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable-systemd/index.html on VirtualBox 6.1
but when I was booting ...
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LFS chapter 5.2. Binutils-2.37 problem
Hi I am currently making LFS and I am in Chapter 5.2. And I am trying to run this command lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources$ tar -xvf binutils-2.36.1.tar.xz But it gave me the following output: tar: binutils-2.36....
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Chapter 3 Packages and patches virtual box problems
I am making LFS I am curently at packages and patches. I ran command
pushd $LFS/sources
md5sum -c md5sums
popd
and it gave me
pushd $LFS/sources
md5sum -c md5sums
popd
/sources /sources
acl-2.3.1....
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How to create mkfs for LFS? [closed]
I am trying to run following command mkfs -v -t ext4 /dev/sda1 to create file system but I got an output /dev/sda1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!. How can I ...
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Glibc 2.34 cross-compiling issue for aarch64 on x86_64
aarch64-linux-gnueabihf-gcc ../sysdeps/gnu/getutmpx.c -c -std=gnu11 -fgnu89-inline -g -O2 -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wundef -Werror -fmerge-all-constants -frounding-math -fno-stack-protector -fno-common -...
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reliable way to find added/modified files by make install
i was about to ask this question yesterday and when i hit the review button, the "similar questions" window has been modified to show me this one: How to find out which files get installed ...
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When configuring Glibc prior to compiling it I recieve an error concerning kernel headers telling me to use "--with-headers"
I am using the latest stable Linux from Scratch book version. In Step 5.5.1, when configuring Glibc I run the provided script, and receive an error telling me to use the --with-headers configure ...
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Can I use an extra 'etc' folder inside /usr in linux?
I'm experimenting with linux from scratch. I'm using stow to install extra packages into /usr/local/stow/. I'm using the command stow <package dir> -t /usr which symlinks everythin to /usr/bin, /...
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I am building an LFS system for the first time. Should the Grub Bios Partition be primary or extended?
I'd assume it would be primary, but I'd prefer to be sure before beginning.
Many thanks in advance.
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How to configure LFS for multilib support?
I managed to install FLS pure 64-bit, but i want to "upgrade it" so it supports 32-bit also. I don't want to build LFS from ground up again. Is there a way to install multilib support on an ...
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LFS GCC-10.2.0 Pass 2 Fails with source-code error in crtstuff.c
When I'm trying to run Chapter 6.18 of the LFS (with systemd) book, make fails because in the file crtstuff.c, line 695, there is an undefined reference to __CTOR_END__. This seems like some sort of g+...
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What are you supposed to do for "pass 2" sections in LFS
I'm trying to build an LFS system but I've hit a roadbloack, what am I supposed to do for the 2nd passes. I thought maybe I had to re-untar again then compile their but that didn't make a new ...
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compiling bash doesn't work, LFS
I have been following the instructions of the LFS manual so far but have come to an error when making bash, I ran make in the bash-5.1 folder but it displayed an error at the end of the command output:...
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How can we alter the Linux file system hierarchy to something that's mine?
I am building LFS & for some non-obvious reasons, I wanted to modify the file structure as MacOS has. For example:
All libraries are in one directory
All headers are in one directory
All binaries ...
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Alsa-lib kernel options
I'm installing Qt to install KDE on my VMware LFS virtual machine. The BLFS guide says to do some kernel configurations appropriate for the hardware, but I don't know what things should I enable and ...
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cfdisk showing more than 4 partitions
I was trying to make a swap partition, but an error message came saying
Primary Partition Not Available
I checked the internet and found out there can't be more than 4 partitions because Linux only ...
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Why can't I view any available networks in linux
I use a custom built Linux distro. When I try to enable wifi I cannot view any existing networks. My wifi card is Intel Wifi link 5100 and the output of lspci -vv is
Subsystem: Intel Corporation WiFi ...
