On 09/23/10 12:17, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Joseph Jezak <jos...@gentoo.org> wrote: > <SNIP> >> mtab is generated on boot as you mount devices. It's not the problem here. >> >> Can you try adding this line to your yaboot config? It will make the >> system boot directly into a shell instead of starting init: >> ### Put this in the kernel section >> append="init=/bin/bash" >> >> Once this boots, does hda* exist in /dev? How about /dev/null and /dev/zero? >> >> -Joe > OK, so I did it like this: > > boot=/dev/hda2 > #device=/p...@f4000000/at...@d/d...@0: > device=hd: > timeout=30 > install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot > magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot > > image=/boot/kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r1 > label=Gentoo-2.6.34-r1 > append="init=/bin/bash" > partition=4 > root=/dev/hda4 > read-only > > and ran ybin -v > > When I reboot I have no keyboard and cannot probe around. The screen is > showing > > (none) / # > > The kernel boots with printk timing info on each line, and then > finishes with two messages: > > bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device > bash: no job control in this shell > > and at that point the machine is hung. > > So this seems like it's just not finding the hardware at this point? > No disk? No keyboard? > > If you want to see the whole screen I can post another screen shot on Flickr. > > Thanks for the interest and help. I'm sure we'll figure it out. > > - Mark > > Okay, that all looks fine. Are you sure that you built USB keyboard support into your kernel? This might be why it wouldn't let you type. I wouldn't mind seeing another screen shot either. Once you get keyboard support working, check to see if those device nodes exist.
-Joe
