On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 09:24:44AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:

>     Maybe I missed something - I don't understand why your kernel
> was not able to mount the root fs.

I think it was able to mount the root fs. From what I recall, it did
say mounted ext4 file system on /dev/mmcblk0p2. Also, from what I
seem to recall, when I ran e2fsck on that partition on my pc, the fs
wasn't unmounted cleanly. So, I'm 95% sure the kernel was able to
mount the root fs.

> I just wanted to mention a working method to run 'debootstrap
> --second-stage': Start your kernel with an interactive shell as init
> and then invoke 'debootstrap --second-stage'; then you can probably
> set the root password etc...

Ok. So the most likely cause of the problem I think was that I didn't
have agetty running on ttyAMA0. Thanks for confirming that all it
takes to do second stage is in fact a kernel which matches the arch.

Greg


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