Installs being dropped straight into a busybox shell
Thomas Lange
lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Thu Aug 21 17:00:27 CEST 2008
>>>>> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:38:46 +0200, Tim Edwards <timothy.edwards.ext at siemens.com> said:
> I'm trying to install etch from an FAI CD image but am not having much
> luck. I got past one error by adding live-initramfs as instructed at
> http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/FAI_3.2_Usage_Changes
> but am now just having the installation drop into a busybox shell almost
> straight after starting. I have a screenshot if necessary. The prompt in
> the shell is "(initramfs)", I'm really not sure what's going on here?
You have a shell can type some commands to track down the error. The
best thing would be that you join the IRC channel #fai, there we can
help you much faster.
I guess something went wrong with creating the ISO image, or you have
hardware that is not fully detected by the kernel.
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regards Thomas
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