Thanks, Ken, for the reply. It made me realise I was barking up the wrong
tree in assuming the system had locked up with some sort of vcs trouble.
All along, it was waiting there in the dark for me to log in, and I just
didn't realise because I'd got something wrong with the graphics set-up.
On Wed, 25 May 2005 16:44:59 +0100, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Bri wrote:
I've built my LFS-6.0 system but when I try to boot it, it seems to go
into an endless cycle like this:
May 25 13:16:40 www udev[548]: removing device node '/dev/vcs1'
May 25 13:16:40 www udev[547]: creating device node '/dev/vcsa1'
May 25 13:16:40 www udev[550]: removing device node '/dev/vcsa1'
May 25 13:16:40 www udev[549]: creating device node '/dev/vcs1'
May 25 13:16:40 www udev[552]: removing device node '/dev/vcs1'
May 25 13:16:40 www udev[551]: creating device node '/dev/vcsa1'
May 25 13:16:40 www udev[554]: removing device node '/dev/vcsa1'
May 25 13:16:40 www udev[553]: creating device node '/dev/vcs1'
May 25 13:16:40 www udev[555]: creating device node '/dev/vcsa1'
actually, some amount of that is normal.
The rest of the boot seems to go okay, to judge from the logs, and the
kernel will boot on my LFS-5.1 system.
[ snip ]
Also, with this kernel I don't get any on-screen messages during boot,
on
either system.
Hmm, if you boot the 5.1 system, the new kernel should not alter the
presence of on-screen messages during booting (although framebuffer
console might take a little longer to appear with 2.6).
But as to not getting the messages in LFS-6.0, I had a similar problem
on one of my builds of a -testing system: caused by not correctly
creating the skeleton devices (/dev/console in particular, but also
/dev/null) - when init starts, it can only use what exists in /dev, the
creation of extra devices by udev happens later. A further symptom of
this is that the screen doesn't get any messages from the bootscripts,
and you don't see a login prompt, but the system will reboot cleanly on
ctrl-alt-del.
If that sounds like your problem, take a look at /mnt/lfs/dev while
you've got it mounted from your 5.1 host.
Ken
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