I've installed Sarge using the Debian-Installer (RC2 of 22-Dec-04) onto a
spare partition (everything on the one partition - hda5). I didn't
install the bootloader, instead modifying the existing one (grub).

When I boot, debian hangs after the following comments:

--
/bin/sh: line 1: /dev/tty1: No such file or directory
[repeats 9 times]
init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
init: no more processes left in this runlevel
--

A lot more whipped past before that, but I'm not sure where to look in the
logs for more information.

I'm not sure if this is of use, but kern.log advises that:

--
kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
--

Conversely, did I configure grub wrong for sarge? The entry is as follows:

--
title debian
kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.img
--

Thank you.

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:07:10 +1100, archonaut
<archonaut@nospampleasethanx.com> wrote:
> I've installed Sarge using the Debian-Installer (RC2 of 22-Dec-04) onto a
> spare partition (everything on the one partition - hda5). I didn't
> install the bootloader, instead modifying the existing one (grub).
>
> When I boot, debian hangs after the following comments:
>
> --
> /bin/sh: line 1: /dev/tty1: No such file or directory
> [repeats 9 times]
> init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> init: no more processes left in this runlevel
> --
>
> A lot more whipped past before that, but I'm not sure where to look in the
> logs for more information.
>
> I'm not sure if this is of use, but kern.log advises that:
>
> --
> kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> --
>
> Conversely, did I configure grub wrong for sarge? The entry is as follows:
>
> --
> title debian
> kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 devfs=mount acpi=ht
> splash=silent vga=788
> initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.img
> --
>
> Thank you.

Perhaps you should omit "devfs=mount". Is there a /dev directory
and a /dev/tty1?


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