[Clfs-support] CLFS - Unable to login on the first bootup

[Ashwin Gururaghavendran]

Hi

I'm following CLFS: Version GIT-20110622-x86_64-Multilib

I'm using openSUSE 11.4 as the host machine to build the cross-to and other
basic tools for the minimal CLFS system booting.

This is the minimalistic system refered in Chapter 7 "If You Are Going to
Boot" and not the final CLFS system.

I got through with the steps mentioned in chapters 1-7 without any errors.

When I finally went to boot the system I initially got an unable to mount
root fs error. It said tried ext2, ext3, ntfs and stuff (but didn't mention
ext4). Then I realized I had not compiled ext4 into the kernel but just as a
module. I rebuild the kernel separately once again and I had success in
getting past this error.

But it was complaining about spawning /sbin/agetty and so did not get any
login prompt. I booted into my host machine and noticed that /sbin didn't
contain agetty, instead it was present in /tools/sbin but according to the
steps in chapter 7.6, it the lines look as below:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty1 9600

So either util-linux didn't install them to the proper location (should it
have been ${CLFS} instead of /tools ?) or I missed some detail/step.

I tried modifying the /etc/inittab to use /tools/sbin/agetty instead of
/sbin/agetty, and now I get a login prompt but entering username as root
does not login into the system. :( It doesn't print any error messages but
waits for roughly 30 seconds and again displays the login prompt.

I also copied the line from /etc/shadow on my host machine for the user root
into ${CLFS}/etc/shadow. I even created an empty ${CLFS}/etc/gshadow. But
still the same behaviour.

Any help here would be appreciated. Let me know if I need to post any
additional logs or even my kernel's .config file. Thanks.

-Ash
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