My 'sandbox' partition boots up fine, starting all the early runlevel daemons/scripts correctly. However, when it begins 'entering runlevel 3', it just sits there, with no password prompt spawned. Going into a different runlevel doesn't help: it just stops at the same place.
I have recompiled and installed
shadow (to ensure that
agetty,
init and
login are all clean), as well as
udev. My inittab lists the
agetty location (/sbin) under PATH, and an example line is:
Code:
tty1:linux:/sbin/agetty /dev/tty1 9600
which appears to be sensible, though I have tried fiddling with, for example, getting it to autologin and get me a bash console, in case that helps (which it doesn't).
I can chroot into the partition from my 'working' one, but I can't seem to find any logs that would be helpful (is there such a log?), and can't find a way of getting
init or
agetty to be more verbose about what they're doing or what might be going wrong.
I am using Source Mage, if that helps. I can't seem to find a similar problem anywhere online, except in the case of a Xenserver setup which seems to be quite specific to that.
Thanks for any assistance.
Edited to add: changing virtual consoles doesn't work, it just stays where it is. But ctrl-alt-del does reboot.