On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Tony Hartzell <[email protected]> wrote:
> I got my PATA drives to show up, now the boot hangs after:
>
> EXT3-fs: barriers not enabled
> kjournald starting. Commit interval
> EXT3-fs (hda2): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode
> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly on device 3:2
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 380k freed
> Write protecting the kernel text: 4476k
> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 1784k
> stty used greatest stack depth: 6012 bytes left
> rc used greatest stack depth: 5828 bytes left
>
> There don't appear to be any logs generated yet.
> Also, the contents of rc.d's subdirectories seem a bit sparse
>
> Thanks,
> Tony Hartzell
> P.S. Is there a web page that describes the boot process before the log
> files are opened?
>

first, kernel is loaded, and optionally a initrd/initramfs (we don't
use that in LFS though)

Once kernel is loaded,  it will either mount the root= partition to /,
 or mount the initrd/initramfs to /

after that, it will run /sbin/init

/sbin/init parases /etc/inittab,

/sbin/init (if using our /etc/inittab) runs
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rcsysinit.d scripts in order,
/sbin/init  runs /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc3.d scripts in order, [if
initdefault is 3 in inittab]

after that, on virtual terminals 1-6, it runs /sbin/agetty which
provide the login prompt.

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