debootstrap install with etch
This has got to be the most problematic install I've ever had, I
think. I have no idea how many times I've had to reboot to the "good"
install on the internal scsi drive to try to fix something on the
debootstrap install on the external drive. The docs at
http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/alpha/apds03.html.en#id2549076 gave
as their final instruction to run "tasksel install standard" for a more
complete system, which I did. Wish I hadn't. One thing it did was to
totally overwrite my /etc/fstab file with totally erroneus drive mapping
-- for /dev/hda1 and the like, when I have no IDE drive installed, this
is all scsci. Weird. Another thing it did was to install something with
cron that totally stopped the boot -- couldn't figure it out, just
removed cron finally.
But now it still boots weird -- the main screen, whether I do a
serial console boot or a regular tga console boot, never shows the total
boot -- that is, you never get a login prompt. I thought for awhile that
the boot was totally failing, but then saw in my server logs that it was
getting an IP, so tried to ssh into it, and it seems like it's all
booted and running normally -- just no console at all.
Also, SRM seems to be acting weirdly -- if I do a "set console
serial" and then an "init" then I get the serial console right away in
minicom, and can start the boot and watch it go until that stops as I
said above, but if I do a "set console graphics" and "init", all I see
on the tga screen is the very first part of the aboot boot up until it
starts initrd and then starts the kernel -- nothing from then on, it's
like I gave it the "-fl "console=ttyS0" flag.
--
Harmon Seaver
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