LFS is designed to be built in one session. That is, the instructions assume that the system will not be shut down during the process. That does not mean that the system has to be done in one sitting. The issue is that certain procedures have to be re-accomplished after a reboot if resuming LFS at different points.
These chapters are accomplished on the host system. When restarting, be careful of the following:
Procedures done as the root
user after Section 2.4 need to have the LFS environment
variable set FOR THE ROOT
USER.
The /mnt/lfs partition must be mounted.
These two chapters must be done as user lfs
. A su -
lfs needs to be done before any task in these
chapters. Failing to do that, you are at risk of installing
packages to the host, and potentially rendering it unusable.
The procedures in General Compilation Instructions are critical. If there is any doubt about installing a package, ensure any previously expanded tarballs are removed, then re-extract the package files, and complete all instructions in that section.
The /mnt/lfs partition must be mounted.
A few operations, from “Changing
Ownership” to “Entering the Chroot
Environment” must be done as the
root
user, with the LFS
environment variable set for the root
user.
When entering chroot, the LFS environment variable must be
set for root
. The LFS
variable is not used afterwards.
The virtual file systems must be mounted. This can be done
before or after entering chroot by changing to a host virtual
terminal and, as root
,
running the commands in Section 7.3.2,
“Mounting and Populating /dev” and Section 7.3.3,
“Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems”.