It boots!
Howdy all,
No more chroot for me, I figured out how to get Debian to boot. :-)
First off, I got San's new Nettrom and installed it. Instructions on
how to do this are on his web page. It's really slick - I had no
problems getting it to boot of an alternate partition.
Some of the base packages need to be fixed/built:
util-linux, mingetty - needs the patch David Welton talked about
shadow - needs a small patch to configure.in so it reacts
properly with utmpx.h
I'll make some uploads tomorrow.
It took me a while to figure out a bunch of oops' that I was getting
from init. It turned out that pretty well all apps try to do a little
bit of floating point in their initialization. I fixed it by adding:
insmod -f /lib/modules/misc/fpem.o license=0
at the beginning of /etc/init.d/rcS .
Unfortunately, our bash also has the floating point code in it, so it
won't work (you need bash to call the script to insert the emulator
module). I had to install Corel's bash, /lib/ld.so, and
/lib/libc.so.4* into the Debian partition. We'll have to figure out
how to get around this...
I was really happy to see xdm pop up, and I could log right in. My
backspace key even worked! However, the arrow keys still don't work.
Maybe when we get kbd/console-tools going, that will resolve itself.
I'm really liking my machine now. Being able to boot directly into
Debian makes all the difference in the world - you know, it's like
that warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you come home after a long trip.
:-)
Cheers,
- Jim
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