On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Behan Webster wrote: > Grant Likely wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Behan Webster <behanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >>> Thanks for this useful tool! > >>> I'm used to plain debootstrap, but decided to give your elbs-rootfs a try for > >>> creating up a mipsel and a powerpc NFS root file system. It worked fine, > >>> except for one minor nit. As an NFS root file system is mounted read-only by > >>> default, I had to manually do > >>> > >>> | mount -n proc /proc -t proc > >>> | mount -n -o remount -w / > >>> > >>> before running finish.sh. Perhaps this can be added to the top of finish.sh? > >>> > >> Odd. I never had this issue. It has always just worked for me. > > > > I had to do this also, and I had to explicitly "export PATH" to get > > the finish script to work. Otherwise I dpkg complains > > > I've also never had this issue, but I will add it to the script. Me neither. > > What I probably did differently is that I booted the system with > > "init=/bin/bash" on the command line instead of letting it just run > > init. I needed to do this because if I let it run init, I got > > complaints about PAM failures when trying to log in as root. How are > > you booting the system on first run? > > > There's your problem. You may have had pam failures before you used > elbs-rootfs, but you shouldn't when using it. My script twiddles with > inittab to give you a getty with a bash shell without a password, and > then fixes it in the finish.sh script. If you just boot with it > normally it should just work. I'm too lazy to type init=/bin/bash, so > the script does it for you. :) I had authentication problems afterwards. As my board didn't have an RTC, the system insisted on changing my root password after each reboot and login. > > Also, when booting on something like a 5200 with an uncommon serial > > ports name (ttyPSC0), I had to manually add the /dev/ttyPSC0 device > > file before it would boot. > > > You're using an older version then. The latest (v1.2) allows you to > specify the serial port/baud rate when running the tool. Yep, it's a pity we cannot standardize on /dev/ttyS0 for the first serial port... With kind regards, Geert Uytterhoeven Software Architect Sony Techsoft Centre Europe The Corporate Village · Da Vincilaan 7-D1 · B-1935 Zaventem · Belgium Phone: +32 (0)2 700 8453 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 8622 E-mail: Geert.Uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxxxx Internet: http://www.sony-europe.com/ A division of Sony Europe (Belgium) N.V. VAT BE 0413.825.160 · RPR Brussels Fortis 293-0376800-10 GEBA-BE-BB
