Re: second stage?

[Paul Thomas <pthomas8589@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Paul Thomas <pthomas8589@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com> wrote:
>> Paul Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>> I know this is a lot of info, but I would appreciate any help anyone
>>> can offer. When I get this all worked out I plan to publish a
>>> mini-tutorial on the opencircuits site.
>>>
>>
>> I've taught on this topic at the Embedded Systems Conference, actually.  I'd
>> be happy to help you with that tutorial if you like!
>>
>> The first-stage debootstrap doesn't create very many device nodes, in
>> particular the console node and most of the ttyS*'s.  I haven't bothered to
>> track the reason down, but I bet it's because they're created in a script
>> that will only run during the second stage of the bootstrapping process---
>> and a foreign-architecture debootstrap only runs the first stage.  So I just
>> create them manually.
>>
>> Then I boot the board to a shell, either nfsroot'ing to the new filesystem
>> or in a chroot.  Then I run /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage.  After
>> that, you'll just need things like an fstab, /etc/network/interfaces, and
>> such.
>>
>> Once you've got that all set, you have a fully-functional [em]Debian
>> environment.
>>
>>
>> b.g.
>>
>> --
>> Bill Gatliff
>> bgat@billgatliff.com
>>
>
> Thanks Bill, I'll try that. I actually attended one of you sessions at
> the 2007 ESC
>
> thanks,
> Paul
>

"debootstrap --second-stage" did the trick. There were a few issues
with udev, so I removed it (I didn't want udev anyway), and now it's
working correctly.

thanks,
Paul