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

[Ashwin Gururaghavendran]

HI Grail

I didn't quite get you there. Among the two routes to initially set up the
system - "7 - If you're going to boot" and "8 - If you're going to chroot",
I chose 7. So at the end of it I was on the assumption that I should boot up
the initial/temporary system using the basic kernel I've built in step 7.10.

Or do you happen to say I could happen to proceed with steps in chapters 9,
10 and above where I get to build the actual packages and tools for my
system right from my host machine (without a chroot) ?

Sorry if this question sounds silly, but I happen to be lost here.

Thanks.

-Ash

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Grail Dane <grail69 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi Ash
>
> As you have only completed part of the solution I am not sure why you
> thought you would be able to boot the system??
>
> Regards
> grail
> ------------------------------
> From: ash25.icon at gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 11:15:54 -0700
> To: clfs-support at lists.cross-lfs.org
> Subject: [Clfs-support] CLFS - Unable to login on the first bootup
>
>
> 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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