Re: custom kernel boot problem: can't access tty

From: Robert Key <robertgordonkey(at)yahoo.com>
Date: Sun Dec 16 2007 - 04:58:13 EST

SOLUTION: to "can't access tty; job control turned off" Apologies for answering my own post, but this seems to be a problem many people have had.

For some reason (there could be many) the boot kernel can't mount the root file system and hence cannot find all devices and tools to run the login.

In my case booting a custom kernel there were no modules for squashfs and unionfs so those file systems which include the root could not be moutned.

Installed squashfs-source and unionfs-source, build the kernel the build the extra modules for squashfs and unionfs with "make install". Kernel must be built first as squashfs and uniofs make needs the build from /lib/modules/kernel-version/build. Ran update-initramfs -u -k custom kernel version to make the initrd. Rebuilt the compressed file system.

Now linux boots and runs live from a USB memory stick with a custom kernel. Hope this helps others with the same problem. Cheers,  

Rob Key

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Received on Sun Dec 16 05:16:02 2007