On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 06:36:17PM -0800, Mark Olbert wrote: > > Your comment about "all the devices" prompted me to check something: > when the LFS system is finished booting, there are no tty or pty (I > think that's it) devices listed. With the Slackware boot (and my memory of my > LFS system when it used to be working) there were tons of tty and pty devices.
That explains why you couldn't login, even with /dev/console recreated, and the "respawning too fast" - if tty1 to tty6 don't exist (the gazillion other ttyn ttynn ttyxn devices probably aren't needed on most systems) - you can't run agetty on them, so it dies immediately, and is respawned. Still doesn't explain why it suddenly all went pear-shaped, but I'm glad you got it running again. For your next build, I strongly recommend you to take backups of the base system, and anything else important ;-) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
