[Lguest] no terminal

inflo inflo at web.de
Mon Feb 25 06:17:59 EST 2008


hi,
seemed that its because theres no udev installed with debootstrap.
After chrooting into the image and creating a device with
mknod /dev/hvc0 c 229 0

one gets the console to login

flo


On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:52:56 +0100
inflo <inflo at web.de> wrote:

> hi,
> when i create my image with
> 
> touch deb.img
> dd if=/dev/zero of=deb.img bs=1M count=300
> mke2fs deb.img
> mount deb.img /mnt -o loop
> debootstrap --arch i386 etch /mnt
> copy in /etc/fstab file
> 
> 
> and then start lguest 64 vmlinux --block=deb.img root=/dev/vda
> 
> it boots nice, but then when the shell should appear, it shows
> nothing.  In lguest.txt stands "make sure that you install a getty on
> /dev/hvc0 if you want to log in on the console!"
> 
> I mounted my deb.img and wrote into /etc/inittab the following line
> 
> 7:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 hvc0
> 
> But no if i boot into it, the only thing that changed is, that i can
> press Enter button and theres a newline in console, but no console
> welcome screen or anything, it simply stops displaying after
> "Starting periodic command scheduler:crond" line ?
> 
> What do i wrong to get the console?
> 
> flo
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