Puppy install boot fails

kmsalex · 06-04-2012, 01:42 AM

After doing the full install of puppy 5.3 and rebooting the process halts with

Quote:

init: must be run as PID 1

Ideas??

kmsalex · 06-06-2012, 07:24 PM

jefro · 06-06-2012, 08:17 PM

Guess what happens when you do a thing like bump?

Nobody looks at it usually since they think it is being answered.

I'd suspect some data issue either bad download or install or such.

kmsalex · 06-06-2012, 09:21 PM

It will have been 3 days since posting in a few hours, oh please do forgive me for my abuse of the forum system sir!

Perchance do you (or any around hear) have a more in-debth idea of what might be wrong? and if there is simply a common i can use to correct the error?

EDIT: I can cntl+alt into a tty... but don't know the log in credentials.

jefro · 06-06-2012, 09:35 PM

Not abuse.

Might be that the post is better suited for some other place. Unfortunately distro specific posts tend to get lost. I only see them when I use a special search.

Tell you what. Make a new post on this in general forums and post a link to this to ask a mod to delete this one. The general forum would give you a better chance.

kmsalex · 06-07-2012, 09:35 PM

Thanks, but i think i'm gonna hold off on puppy all together and see if i can't get lubuntu 10.04 running on this machine.

Mods can close this if they like, i'll create a new post in the main forum if needed.

Karl Godt · 06-08-2012, 09:40 AM

Init must run as PID 1 can mean another process is using PID 1 .

Possible : you booted with initrd.gz but Puppy Linux does not need initrd.gz (anymore) in PUPMODE=2 Full install to HDD .

The initrd.gz has code to switch to console mode which would /bin/sh make PID 1 .

The /sbin/init launches /bin/busybox init if no fsckme file detected .

Since i am working on /sbin/init

ADVANCED pup-5xx /sbin/init

This is the only possibility i could think of.

kmsalex · 06-10-2012, 01:37 AM

Thanks for your effort but I've now got lubuntu 10.04 up and running on it... mostly with out flaw (and only sucking 60mb of ram at desktop

) now i just need to get it to detect the 3com network card.

I want to make it into a home dns server so kind of need that XP