Re: Install Success - Not Quite
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:36:52PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
>>
>> Well I guess I jumped the gun, the m68k install didn't quite finish. It
>> downloaded all the packages for base, unpacked them all, then stopped during
>> 'Install essential packages'. I tried it twice and it stops in the same
>> place. no error messages, terminal 2 also freezes up. You can type a command
>> but it doesn't respond. No disk activity.
>
> I had this on ia64, hung when libc6 or sysinitv postinst tried to
> get init to reload inittab. The root cause was that I had forgotten
> to include root=/dev/ram in my boot options. It mounted the ramdisk
> ok (from initrd=....), but then gets confused about whether process
> 1 is linuxrc or init (something like that anyway).
>
> So check you boot with root=/dev/ram.
>
> Richard
>
I checked, and I was using root=/dev/ram so it looks like it's different
from yours.
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