hello all;

I just upgraded to debian sid and I wanted to install the 2.6.2 kernel:
Everything starts up fine... but I don't get bash at startup... just an init and it's messages. Is there any solution to this?

thx. Geert.

Hi,

read at least the last 5 lines of the init messages and paste them here.

I think else we can't help you :/

cu

btw: SID isn't for newbies ...

uh... well

starting mta
starting xprt
starting xfs
starting xdm

Now... xdm doesn't start because I haven configured X yet. But eh... I think that bash should start. There are NO error-messages. It works using the bf24-kernel from woody.

Hi,

is the puter really freezing ? What about pressing the "Num-Lock" button ? LED turning on/off ? Tried to press ctrl+alt+f2 to change to a different console ?

If all isn't working do a

linux init=/bin/bash

at the lilo prompt, boot bash, remount de fs rw and remove xdm from the init levels. After that, remount ro, and reboot ...

Could be possible that the Xserver crashes ...

cu

btw: SID isn't for newbies ...

So this is what I did...

A modified version of yours...

I rebooted into 2.4.18-bf24...
removed xdm from the startup at runlevel 3...
edited inittab so it's default runlevel is 3

update:
after some time I got this error:
INIT: ID 1: respawing too fast : disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: ID 2: respawing too fast : disabled for 5 minutes
...
INIT: ID 6: respawing too fast : disabled for 5 minutes

Hope this helps someone...

btw: what do you define as newbie?

Hi,

hmm, looks like getty got problems to bind to a terminal.

You've compiled "Support for virtual consol on terminal" into your kernel ? and /dev/pts support ?

Hmm, this is a difficult queston. Ppl that don't want to read, ask for every silly problem, don't have enough (debian)-experience and so on. That are newbies. I know that newbies normally are ppl that are new to a thing, but you can extend this term to much more than just this.

Most problems that occour with sid are broken dependencies or packages. Or just problems that depend on the "UNSTABLE"-stage of Sid that makes a "normale use" very problematic. This points to questions that normally don't have to be answered and that are addicted after a few days 'cause a new package with a fix is out. So if many "newbies" are using sid we're discussing lots of needless questions.. That doesn't mean that we don't want more ppl to use SID or to ask questions....

It's like the same as you never burn sid cd-images onto a cd-r. You're ever using cd-rw aren't you ?

So if you find out that SID isn't really the answer to your problems, switch back to sarge or woody.

cu

I haven't compiled my new kernel yet...
though I think you are right...
I let out all /dev (probably including /dev/pts) because, correct me if I am wrong, it was replaced by /sys...

Well. one thing is for sure... I don't have any debian experience. I did run gentoo... but I was tired of compiling everything. I never could change to debian because I need XFree 4.3 for my video card. So now you know why I am running sid.

anyway... I shall let you know something if it worked.

Geert.

[edit]
I don't like the idea of backports... it seems to me like having a unstable system. However... sid won't give me a stable system
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Hi,
Hmm, hope so, cause after building 2.6.3 on my SID system i just added the debian package i build of the kernel and rebooted. Everything worked fine ...

Not really ...

I still got everything in /dev

Sure

cu

tried it... it failed.

gentoo starts to look very good