>
> "Peter T. Breuer" writes:
>
> >/etc/ld.so.cache
> >
> >("locate cache | grep ld")
>
> Thanks. I checked my cache, and its completely up to date. In fact, it
> updates itself everytime I boot. So 2.1.15 isn't halting because of it.
>
> Ian
>
I strongly recommend that, when using development kernels, you link
init statically and put copies in all the directories checked, i.e.,
/sbin/init /bin/init /usr/bin/init....
/usr/src/sysvinit-2.62[68]# gcc -o init -static init.c
/usr/src/sysvinit-2.62[69]# mv /sbin/init /sbin/init.O
/usr/src/sysvinit-2.62[70]# mv /bin/init /bin/init.O
/usr/src/sysvinit-2.62[71]# mv /usr/bin/init /usr/bin/init.O
/usr/src/sysvinit-2.62[72]# cp init /sbin
/usr/src/sysvinit-2.62[73]# cp init /bin
/usr/src/sysvinit-2.62[74]# cp init /usr/bin
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
My prompt commands
If you can get to the root mount point from another kernel, you can
modify /etc/rc.d/rc.S to:
/bin/bash
... on its first line.
This will get you up to a very dumb mode with a shell. Just exit the
shell to continue.
You can then execute each of the startup commands, one at a time, to
see what hangs the system. If you get the shell upon startup, you know
that init started and forked its first shell to execute the commands
in /etc/rc.d/rc.
Init is not a very complicated program, but if it doesn't run, you are
screwed big-time trying to find out why.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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