I anxiously await each new release of LFS, and upon receiving the news of the release of 7.4, I immediately began again to install a new system. I learn something new every time. This time is proving to be no different.
So far, the biggest change for me is adopting the change from ext3 to ext4. I am building 7.4 using LFS 7.3. I successfully created a new partition and used the instructions to format it as ext4. So, here's the sticky part. I can't mount it! I kept getting the following error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda5, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so. So, I looked at dmesg | tail: [ 4946.062759] EXT4-fs (sda5): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities [ 4955.773590] EXT4-fs (sda5): Filesystem with huge files cannot be mounted RDWR without CONFIG_LBDAF I used the command as written: mount -v -t ext4 /dev/sda5 $LFS So, I'm not sure why the system thinks I'm mounting it as ext3. My kernel is configured to use ext4. I tried reinstalling the latest util-linux package, but I get the same error. So, I'm stuck dead in the water before even getting past the Intro! Any suggestions? Thanks, Roger -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
