Re: initrd woes

[Maria McKinley <maria@shadlen.org>]

Well, no one said it was the wrong place to post, so I guess I will keep 
trying...

I made init non-executable, so that I would be dropped into a shell. 
Once in the shell, I tried running init from the command line, and maybe 
get some more info to use for troubleshooting than I was getting from 
running init from initrd. Here is what I got:

init s
init: /dev/initctl: No such file or directory

I read in some info about initctl that it is created by init. I looked 
at the documentation for init, but it was not clear to me what is run 
before the scripts in /etc/rcS.d. I tried putting an echo statement at 
the beginning of the first script in rcS.d, but it did not print, so I 
assume the problem is somewhere before this, but I don't know where to 
look. There is definitely a /dev/ directory that has lots of stuff in it 
(although not the initctl, of course), so not sure where the problem is. 
Can anyone give me a hint where to look now?

thanks,
maria