No Console upon Boot
From: puzzles (dan.chokola_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/30/05
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Date: 30 Mar 2005 12:01:34 -0800
What I would like is for someone to tell me what I need to simply get
the console running.
I've recently been trying to get a linux installation onto an old Dell
Latitude 486 laptop. It only has a diskette drive and a small ( <1 gig
) harddrive, so I opted to boot from a boot disk and install linux from
scratch.
I've never attempted a linux install from scratch before, so I'm
learning as I go, which is always a fun experience. The bottom line is
this: I have a working kernel and GRUB as the bootloader. The kernel
boots, hands off control to init (in my case, I'm trying to use minit)
but nothing aside from a little harddrive activity happens. I can type
to the screen and see the characters echoed, but no login prompt, no
shell, it responds to nothing but ctrl-alt-delete, which I have linked
to a script in /sbin.
I've tried other init= options, such as /bin/bash, /bin/sash, /bin/ash
and the regular ol' sysvinit to no avail. What I would like is for
someone to tell me what I need to simply get the console running. I
don't have loadkeys doing anything, since I compiled in the keyboard
layout. I haven't used setfont either. But I can't see how they would
matter anyway.
Any help/suggestions appreciated,
Dan "Puzzles" Chokola
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