On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 10:05:54PM +0200, Antoine wrote:
> I tried converting a Bookworm BeagleBone Black image (direct from the BBB
> site) to Devuan, following the instructions on the "bookworm-to-daedalus"
> page.
> I'm accessing the BBB over serial tty (it's headless).
>
> Each time, after the reboot, I lose the login on the serial tty and the
> ethernet interface doesn't seem to come up, leaving me with a kernel log
> over serial but no way to log in.
>
> I'm installing on an SD-card, so I can remove it and read/write it on my
> desktop (but not chroot into it) and could probably tweak the config from my
> desktop if I only knew how. The instructions on the page include installing
> sysvinit-core.
>
> Does anyone here know the system boot-up process well enough to point me in
> right direction?

You should edit /etc/inittab (on the sdcard) to activate serial console,
something like:
----
T0:2:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200
----

Doing so will make init run /sbin/getty for interactions on device
/dev/ttyS0, and you may need to adapt either or both of those choices
for your system. See also "man getty" if you want it log in
"automatically". It might be an issue that you may also get kernel
logging directed to ttyS0 as well; inspect /etc/inittab for turing
that off, if that's where the log listing is set up. Or possibly that
is a console parameter on the boot commandline.

Ralph.

>

> Thanks in avance,
>     Antoine

>
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