Re: Release Party Time ;-)

[Michael Tomkins <michft@gmail.com>]

On 15/02/2011, at 10:39 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Michael Tomkins dixit:
>
> > Mounting local file systems ... done
> > Activating swap ... done
> > Cleaning up tempory files ...
> > Cleaning up tempory files ...
> > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> > INIT: ld "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> > INIT: ld "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> > INIT: ld "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> > INIT: ld "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> > INIT: ld "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> > INIT: ld "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> > INIT: no more processes left on this level.
>
> Userspace runs fine but things hang → probably ttys
> missing, getty missing or something. The base.cow
> is the result of a debootstrap --variant=buildd which
> is minbase + build-essential, not important. (I’ve
> made an effort to build most packages of important,
> but not yet finished. You might need to install more.)
>
> > Usinging makefile-concurrent boot in runlevel 2
>
> This may also be the cause of a problem. I really
> recommend everyone to run inside the sid system
> an 'apt-get --purge install insserv- file-rc'
> which will purge insserv and sysv-rc and replace
> them with file-rc (arch:all), which works much
> better, easier, more reliable, more sane, etc.
> (the Grml guys got me hooked ☺).


tried a

mount /dev/sda8 /mnt
chroot /mnt /bin/bash

and got a

cannot setup thread-local storage : unknown error.

tried a

mount /dev/sda8 /mnt
cp -i /dev/* /mnt/dev/

answered n for any overwrite.

rebooted into sda8 and got to the login prompt!

will install other bits (/etc/passwd for one ;) ) and "script" the  
session, posting result when I have a working system.
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Michael Tomkins
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