Re: Installation report and plans for oldworld power macintoshes
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:31:08PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> 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.
Oops, forgot the inittab, here it is.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
# /etc/inittab: init(8) configuration.
# $Id: inittab,v 1.91 2002/01/25 13:35:21 miquels Exp $
# The default runlevel.
id:2:initdefault:
# Boot-time system configuration/initialization script.
# This is run first except when booting in emergency (-b) mode.
si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
# What to do in single-user mode.
~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin
# /etc/init.d executes the S and K scripts upon change
# of runlevel.
#
# Runlevel 0 is halt.
# Runlevel 1 is single-user.
# Runlevels 2-5 are multi-user.
# Runlevel 6 is reboot.
l0:0:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 6
# Normally not reached, but fallthrough in case of emergency.
z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin
# What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
# Action on special keypress (ALT-UpArrow).
#kb::kbrequest:/bin/echo "Keyboard Request--edit /etc/inittab to let this work."
# What to do when the power fails/returns.
pf::powerwait:/etc/init.d/powerfail start
pn::powerfailnow:/etc/init.d/powerfail now
po::powerokwait:/etc/init.d/powerfail stop
# /sbin/getty invocations for the runlevels.
#
# The "id" field MUST be the same as the last
# characters of the device (after "tty").
#
# Format:
# <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>
#
# Note that on most Debian systems tty7 is used by the X Window System,
# so if you want to add more getty's go ahead but skip tty7 if you run X.
#
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
# Example how to put a getty on a serial line (for a terminal)
#
#T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100
#T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100
# Example how to put a getty on a modem line.
#
#T3:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x0 -s 57600 ttyS3
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