Now that all of the software has been installed, it's time to reboot the computer. Before we reboot, let's unmount $LFS/proc and the LFS partition itself by running: umount $LFS/proc && umount $LFS If you decided to create multiple partitions, you need to umount the other partitions before you umount $LFS, like this: umount $LFS/proc && umount $LFS/usr && umount $LFS/home && umount $LFS And you can reboot your system by running something like: /sbin/shutdown -r now At the LILO: prompt make sure that you tell it to boot lfs and not the default entry which will boot your host system again. After you have rebooted, your LFS system is ready for use and you can start adding your own software. One final thing you may want to do is run lilo, now that you are booted into LFS. This way you will put the LFS version of LILO in the MBR rather than the one that's there right now from your host system. Depending on how old your host distribution is, the LFS version may have more advanced features you need/could use. Either way, run the following to make the lilo version installed on LFS active: /sbin/lilo You may now remove the static directory. If you think you may need to redo Chapter 5, then you may wish to backup the directory before removing it. To remove the static directory, type the following command: rm -rf /static