Bug#68016: tftp and floppy install broken on sun4m
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 09:10:59PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Mon Jul 31, 2000 at 03:20:10PM +0200, Christian Meder wrote:
> > Package: boot-floppies
> > Version: 2.2.16-2000-07-14;
> > Severity: important
> >
> > The kernel boots ok but when init starts busybox things fall apart:
> >
> > init started: BusyBox 0.43 (2000.07.06-13.xxx) multi-call binary
> > E: /proc does not appear to be mounted (No such file or directory)
> > E: /proc does not appear to be mounted (No such file or directory)
> > E: /proc does not appear to be mounted (No such file or directory)
> > E: /proc does not appear to be mounted (No such file or directory)
> > E: /proc does not appear to be mounted (No such file or directory)
>
> To clarify, init _is_ busybox. And it looks like busybox init has done its job
> of starting dbootstrap, since the error message you are seeing is coming from
> dbootstrap/main.c in the function check_proc(), which is the _very_ first thing
> that dbootstrap does. When check_proc() fails to find /proc/version,
> dbootstrap exits, and busybox init notices that dbootstrap has exited, and
> dutifully restarts it. Ad infinitum.
>
> What is _very_ curious here is that for some reason /proc isn't getting
> mounted. Since busybox init is obviously running, it should also have run
> /etc/init.d/rcS which has as its first line
> mount proc /proc -t proc
>
> So either this script is not being run on your system (perhaps /dev/null is
> missing?), or when it is run, it it not managing to mount /proc for some very
> wierd reason. Is this repeatable? If so, are you in a position to run some
> tests?
Yep and yes. It is repeatable. I get the error when booting via tftp (tried it
several times) _and_ when booting via floppies.
I can run some tests but I guess I need to compile my own boot disk or
tftp image then (which shouldn't be a problem per se it just takes time
on a Sparc 20 ;-)
Christian
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Christian Meder, email: meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de
What's the railroad to me ?
I never go to see
Where it ends.
It fills a few hollows,
And makes banks for the swallows,
It sets the sand a-blowing,
And the blackberries a-growing.
(Henry David Thoreau)
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