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USB Flash Install
I took a USB thumb drive, used fdisk to delete the partion it came with and
add a single new Linux partition, flagged as bootable.
I then formatted the partition with mkfs.ext4 but in retrospect I probably
should have used ext2 as journaling probably hurts performance on a flash drive.
Building the LFS on it was incredibly slow. In future, I will build to an empty
directory on an actual SSD/Hard Disk and then copy the contents to the flash
drive (maybe without a lot of the /usr/share/doc stuff).
It almost worked. The grub-install command worked and it started to boot but
kernel panicked because it could not mount the root file system. The problem is
probably a kernel option, I have been given some suggestions.
So to continue with the project, I built from LFS 11.3 straight to hard disk
without going through the thumb drive (just do not run PRENINE.sh).
I will try to figure out a kernel configuration that boots fron the flash drive, I want an emergency boot device. But at the moment that is lower priority.
Hard Drive Install
This worked but there are some issues.
Console Font
I dislike the console font, I need to look at which console font I defined for use in LFS 11.3 as I like it better.
Network
The network did not come up. The ip link command did show that my MAC address
was associated with my defined lan0 interface but the network did not come up.
I removed the /etc/systemd/network/10-lan0.link file and restarted the network
service to see what dbus called my interface, and then edited the
/etc/systemd/network/10-lan0.network file to use that name and again restarted
the network and this time it started.
I almost wonder if maybe SystemD ran 10-lan0.network before 10-lan0.link so
that the link was not yet defined? I will look at it.
Timezone
My hardware clock is UTC and but the date command shows the UTC time but
calls it PDT so when I set the time zone, I must have done so incorrectly. I
will look into it.