[ale] sytem hangs after init mounts filesystems..........

[Keith Hopkins]

Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Thanks Keith. Good to hear from you again.
> 
> I'm trying to create root & boot floppies [2]. My boot floppy is fine. 
> It pauses and requests the root floppy be inserted after loading all 3 
> needed scsi drivers. Init IIRC then replaces the initial ramdisk with 
> /dev/fd0 as /, then mounts everything, the last being /proc 
> and..............hangs.
> 
> I'd love to "manually step through the startup with some 
> debugging/verbose switches" !
> 
> How ?

Modify the rc script (/etc/init.d/rc on my system) on your boot floppy to start with
#!/bin/bash -xv

You can do the same on any other startup script, too.  /etc/init.d/boot.* comes to mind.  boot.localfs mounts /proc for me.

Can you boot this system some other way (CD-ROM?).  If so, compare the start-up for that boot, with the start-up of your floppies.  Anything (drivers!) different?  Any additional hw getting initialized?

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith


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