remastering question and more

[betchern0t]

Hi,
     I am attempting to use the core distribution - I hope this is the right place - to simulate some embedded systems work I am doing.

This is a secure updator. The process is that the device - a kvm installed with core to the disk - boots to core and then proceeds to boot a second instance using kexec. This all works. To make things simpler I am re-using the core.gz initrd that is supplied. I do this by setting the kernel commandline to include "root=/dev/ram0".

This is all working and I am even managing to make changes to the core.gz. However one thing that has me stumped is that instead of autologin when booting to the second kernel, I am presented with a login prompt. I have tried setting the commandline "user=tc" but that had no effect.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

many thanks in advance

Paul

[curaga]

Doublecheck you have the correct initramfs for the second kernel, and that there is no "noautologin" in the bootcodes.

[betchern0t]

thanks Curaga for the response. The reason it is failing is that when busybox's login is called in /sbin/autologin it fails with "-f is only for root"

The user calling it is "root" so all I can assume is that I have some kind of permission problem.

There is no "noautologin" on the commanline.

Cheers Paul

[betchern0t]

yep. That was it I put all my extract code into a script and ran it under root and the problem went away. Nasty what the smallest piece of lint does to the machine.

Many thanks for your help

Cheers Paul