Re: Installation report and plans for oldworld power macintoshes
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 02:15:39PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > And there i faced the last problem, well most probably a bug or
> > something, i was simply presented with a login prompt, and i had not the
> > root password to enter it. Normally at this time, it should have booted
> > in the post-d-i install process, and proceeded smoothly with the
> > install. Why this happened has me trully baffled, but i couldn't do
> > much, for lack of root password.
>
> Boot with init=/bin/sh or such, and check /etc/inittab; it should have
> an entry in it to run base-config.
Well, i have loged in another install on the disk, and mounted the root
partition. i attach the inittab here, there is no such thing as
base-config entry in it. Also strange, altough other files have January
17 dates, the inittab has date : Dec 23 23:18.
I have a supsision that maybe there was an older system install on this
partition previously, altough parted did not detect any filesystem and
supposedly did the install.
This is not supposed to happen, since d-i should have made a new ext3
filesystem on this partition, at least i asked him to do so, so i am a
bit confused.
But maybe this is due to one of the previous steps (yaboot in
particular) failing, and d-i all the time wanting to come back to it.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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