Maria McKinley wrote:
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
I figured out the /dev/initctl. I was attempting to start init the wrong
way, I needed to do exec /sbin/init. When I tried that, I actually got
it to boot up, although it has booted up still with the ro / mount and
/usr mount made by initrd. It appears /etc/fstab was never read, because
statd was never started. And of course, there are no log files since
everything is read only, so I can't figure out what went wrong. And
still have no idea why init wouldn't run at all from initrd. Please, any
ideas?
thanks,
maria
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