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cannonfodder

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Registered: 2007-12-21

Posts: 2

fails to boot after install init: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"

Just installed FTP version of Arch 2009 on a JFS partition. Machine is p4 2.0 +/- GHz with one PATA drive. Disabled SATA and SCSI in mkcpio.conf, if that's relevant. Other than that it's a pretty standard install. Followed same steps I usually do.

Upon first post-install reboot, system hung after a series of

init: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"

messages. This is followed by

respawning too fast :disable for 5 minutes

messages.

Found very little info on this on google.

I've been distro-hopping for about 3 years now. Tried Arch all last winter. So I'm fairly familiar with Arch, the command line, and Linux in general. Far from an expert tho LOL!

Last edited by cannonfodder (2009-02-26 15:28:46)

bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 1,160

Re: fails to boot after install init: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"

Maybe it's just a typo but if you have a PATA drive why would you disable PATA in mkinitcpio.conf?  Did you mean SATA?

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cannonfodder

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Registered: 2007-12-21

Posts: 2

Re: fails to boot after install init: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"

Yeah, that was supposed to read SATA, not PATA... Typo has been fixed