failed etch live image but sid works

[jpryzby+d at quoininc.com (Justin Pryzby)]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:31:42PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Hideki Yamane wrote:
> >  virtualbox console says
> >  (snip)...
> >  Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
> >  loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> >  squashfs: version 3.1 (2006/08/19) Phillip Lougher
> > 
> >  BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-4) Built-in shell (ash)
> >  Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
> > 
> >  /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
> >  (initramfs)
> 
> could be a virtualbox issue; try qemu.
> 
> i did test it; it definitely works on real hardware as well as in qemu
> and vmware.
Well, I have little to contribute, but I still have the same problem
booting any usb-hdd image with qemu, tried both aufs and unionfs
(as I recall, unionfs gave me the same problem symptoms when run under
linux 2.6.22).

Justin

References

[0] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-live-devel/2007-August/002036.html