Re: powerpc boot-floppies from current CVS broken
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 02:16:06PM +0300, Michael Sobolev wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 03:45:43AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote:
> > Interestingly enough, on both systems I can pass "init=/bin/sh" to the
> > kernel, mount /proc manually, then execute /sbin/dbootstrap. In this
> > case, both systems are able to run through the installation and I/O
> > is handled as expected. There are, of course, lots of little problems
> > along the way to fix due to the code clean up and new features.
> You may also kill dbootstrap from the second console (as I did) and after
> that it works just fine. I believe the subject on irc channel #boot-floppies
> was `dbootstrap does not work with new init' or something. So this seems to
> be a known problem. :)
Ahhh, wonderful. I also saw that it worked when killing dbootstrap from
the second console, forgot to mention that part. That puts the problem
in the busybox arena then...
> It looks like the problem lies (sp??) in the way init redirects stdin/stdout
> or something. At least, I saw that on irc...
Hmmm. Makes sense. I should have popped over to that channel as soon as
I saw problems.
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Matt Porter
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