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

[Grail Dane]

Hi Ash
Sorry I forgot to look at the part where you said 'multilib' :(
I have noticed though that there is a difference in the Boot sections of different builds (but not sure why).
In GIT-20110703-x86 version they have:
ln -sv /tools/sbin/{agetty,blkid} ${CLFS}/sbin
Which yours does not ??

So only thing I can think of is to have a look and see if there are any other steps that might be missing.

Also, just out of curiosity, are you building for a different architecture and so are choosing to boot?
Cheersgrail
From: ash25.icon at gmail.com
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 18:37:46 -0700
To: clfs-support at lists.cross-lfs.org
Subject: Re: [Clfs-support] CLFS - Unable to login on the first bootup

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??
RegardsgrailFrom: 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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