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Re: Debian-Installer on mipsel



Karsten Merker wrote:
> Hallo everybody,
> 
> I am trying to get d-i running on mipsel. I get to the point that the
> kernel mounts the ramdisk with the rootfs, runs /linuxrc (but only if
> I specify init=/linuxrc - by default it tries to execute /sbin/init).
> The commands in /linuxrc are executed up to the last line:
> 
> exec chroot . /linuxrc <dev/console >dev/console 2>&1
> 
> Before this, /linurc has been replaced by a symlink to /sbin/init, so
> the system should start a normal init process. I get the busybox init
> welcome message and then the system hangs. Did anybody have similar
> experiences on other platforms?

Sounds to me like the inittab is perhaps not configured to start
main-menu and/or consoles on the right terminals.

Or do you mean this is a rock solid system hang?

-- 
see shy jo

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