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diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index c3896257f..79fa84aef 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ first a summary, then a detailed log.</para> </itemizedlist> </listitem> +<listitem><para>March 2, 2005 [matt]: Add note regarding potential +custom features in a host distribution's version of e2fsprogs. Fixes +bug 1047. Thanks to Steve Crosby for the suggested explanatory text.</para> +</listitem> + <listitem><para>March 2, 2005 [jim]: Update download locations </para></listitem> diff --git a/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml b/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml index f013b9dec..2a10e1c1b 100644 --- a/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml +++ b/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml @@ -22,6 +22,33 @@ url="&blfs-root;view/svn/postlfs/filesystems.html"/>.</para> <para>Replace <replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> with the name of the LFS partition (<filename class="devicefile">hda5</filename> in our previous example).</para> +<note><para>Some host distributions use custom features in their filesystem +creation tools (e2fsprogs). This can cause problems when booting into your new +LFS in Chapter 9, as those features will not be supported by the LFS-installed +e2fsprogs; you will get an error similar to <quote>unsupported filesystem +features, upgrade your e2fsprogs</quote>. To check if your host system +uses custom enhancements, run the following command:</para> + +<screen><userinput>debugfs -R feature /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable></userinput></screen> + +<para>If the output contains features other than: dir_index; filetype; +large_file; resize_inode or sparse_super then your host system may have custom +enhancements. In that case, to avoid later problems, you should compile the +stock e2fsprogs package and use the resulting binaries to re-create the +filesystem on your LFS partition:</para> + +<screen><userinput>cd /tmp +tar xjf /path/to/sources/e2fsprogs-1.36.tar.bz2 +cd e2fsprogs-1.36 +mkdir build +cd build +../configure +make #note that we intentionally don't 'make install' here! +./misc/mke2fs /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> +cd /tmp +rm -rf e2fsprogs-1.36</userinput></screen> +</note> + <para>If a swap partition was created, it will need to be initialized as a swap partition too (also known as formatting, as described above with <command>mke2fs</command>) by running the following. If you are using an existing |