AlpineLinux error on boot
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Sat, 2014-07-05 05:06
litehacker
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- 2014-07-05
I see the following on boot from CD (64 bit, version 3.0.1):
ISOLINUX 6.02 2013-10-13 ETCD Copyright (C) 1994-2013 H. Peter Anvin et al boot: mdev: bad line 73: 2 tokens found, 3 needed 0% [ ] Bus error Installing packages to root filesystem failed initramfs emergency recovery shell launched. Type 'exit' to continue boot sh: cant access tty; job control turned off / #
Running on this.
Anybody know what is wrong? Or what I can try typing in to figure out what's with this mdev?
Ok, I just ran this:
and I got this:
It seems to be complaining about line 73 in the following file:
/etc/mdev.confThis is the line in particular:
After commenting out this line, I found that "mdev -s" ran fine.
It seems as if this is a configuration issue. Shouldn't everyone else be running into the same problem?
I have no clue how to fix this. Modify the ISO?
Alpine 3.0.1 ships with that mdev error but it is unimportant. The only effect it has is that /dev/snd/* has wrong premissions.
But that bus error seems a hardware failure. Have you tried another live distro?
I ran the CD on my Dell inspiron 1525 with the same results, so I gather the bus error is some other configuration issue elsewhere..
Anyway, taking your advice, I tried out the 3.0 version instead of 3.0.1.
It works find without an error.
I'm glad it works for you.
Regarding to 3.0.1, I was thinking about some kind of failure to download or burn the cd.
In my opinion, a configuration issue is possible but less probable as it fails in two different computers.
Regards.
Hmmm. I get the same "bus error" message booting the 3.0.4 x86_64 iso. The sha256sum looks ok on the images. Looks like I have a choice between starting with the 3.0 iso or doing a chroot install. I did a chroot install in the first place but apparently did an incomplete setup -- the target partition segfaulted on boot. I was afraid to use setup-alpine, not being sure it would do the right thing for my dual-boot target. I used the other setup-* scripts and my expert linux knowledge ;)
Let me know if I can help with further info. I apologize for posting a "me too" with no useful information but there does seem to me to be a problem in the iso configuration. [WRONG -- see edit]
[EDIT]
I checked my cd directly and found an error on it, not detected by k3b when it was burned yesterday (it probably got scratched). I re-burned a cd and alpine 3.0.4 boots to a lovely login prompt! No error messages during boot. All is well and I look forward to starting some work with alpine by the end of the day. ..... Finally got myself booted into Alpine and very happy to be working with a system with so many good design decisions in it.