Andy Chase

Well, despite my comments earlier this afternoon that I didn't think I was up to debugging my new Linux From Scratch installation, I've been back at it for most of the night. It's 10:30, and I'm going to bed.



I took care of the worst of the boot errors; the biggest (and easiest to fix so far today) error was a simple misplaced line break in one of the main startup scripts - a cut/paste glitch from GNOME/Mozilla on the other partition.



Most of my time has been spent pulling my hair out trying to get networking running correctly. So far I can ping and even telnet to the gateway, but I can't get at anything beyond it, and nothing I've tried seems to work. I probably need to go back into a GUI environment to do some more searching on the matter; Lynx is great as a plain-text browser, but sifting through search engine results, even from Google, is difficult.



The other problem I'm having is with the proper loading of modules. That's not such a huge concern; if worse comes to worst I can just make a hardcoded boot script for the modules I know I configured the kernel for.



The network thing is really cheesing me off right now, but overall it's been fun, and I've already learned a lot more than I did about boot scripts. I think part of the enjoyment comes from the way everything else gets tuned out when I'm zeroed in on a particular problem.



Of course, this'll be nagging at the back of my mind all day at work tomorrow.