On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 10:01:48 +0200 Frans de Boer <fr...@fransdb.nl> wrote:
> Same story, nothing happens. > I do notice, however, that on the listing by systemd capabilities the > text -ELFUTILS is used. I do compile the elfutils, but somehow systemd > does not use them. Is that a likely source of the problem? Frans, I don't know, but how do you know that systemd is not using them? In anycase, I think that if init=/bin/bash can't bring up a shell prompt, then that indicates a serious issue and one that should be independent of systemd (unless you are using an initramfs/initrd, see below). When trying init=/bin/bash, what exactly does your kernel command line look like? Here is how someone approaches that in grub: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-reset-lost-root-password-on-ubuntu-16-04-xenial-xerus-linux Their grub boot was changed to something like: linux /boot/vmlinuz-4-4.0-22-generic root=UUID=43ad24d3-e\ c5b-44ee-a099-a88eb9520989 rw init=/bin/bash But, without an initramfs, a PARTUUID should be used instead (issue a blkid as root to see the list of drive names/IDs). Now, with an initramfs/initrd it is my understanding that systemd still starts first and then systemd calls the init= line: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-June/020016.html Are you using an initrd? If so, can you build any needed drivers into the kernel, specifiy your root filesystem via PARTUUID and then try init=/bin/bash again without the use of any initrd? Another possibility is that the terminal you get does see your commands, its just that you can't see the response due to some type of console setup issue. You could try seeing if issuing some command, e.g., ls, does cause the hard drive access light to flash. I would also try booting the same filesystem, but with another, known good, kernel to see if that helps. Cheers, Mike -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
