[Josh Triplett] > Bootlogd seems unlikely to work with a read-only root filesystem.
Ah, right. > However, if it would help, I could boot without "quiet", and snap a > picture of the first screen of messages after /etc/init.d/rc says > "Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S". Yes, please. Your initial pictures did not show any messages when running the scripts in rcS.d/ (which is not really the runlevel S, but the "boot" sequence), and the rest of the messages also looked like the scripts in rcS.d/ did not run at all. I have no idea how this can happen, and welcome more information. What is the content of your /etc/init.d/.depend.* files? The .depend.boot file would be used for rcS.d/. > ~$ ls /etc/rc?.d All of these look fine. The most important one is the rcS.d/ list: > /etc/rcS.d: > README S08mtab.sh S16mountnfs-bootclean.sh > S01mountkernfs.sh S09checkfs.sh S17kbd > S02udev S10ifupdown S18console-setup > S03mountdevsubfs.sh S10mountall.sh S19alsa-utils > S04bootlogd S11mountall-bootclean.sh S19bootmisc.sh > S05keyboard-setup S12mountoverflowtmp S19fuse > S06hostname.sh S13pcmciautils S19lm-sensors > S06hwclockfirst.sh S13procps S19schroot > S07checkroot.sh S13udev-mtab S19screen-cleanup > S08hwclock.sh S13x11-common S19urandom > S08ifupdown-clean S14networking S20stop-bootlogd-single > S08module-init-tools S15mountnfs.sh This is the ordering on my test machine, if you want to compare: r...@tjener:~# ls /etc/rcS.d/ README S10ifupdown-clean S19portmap S01mountkernfs.sh S10module-init-tools S20nfs-common S02early-readahead S10mtab.sh S21mountnfs.sh S03udev S11checkfs.sh S22mountnfs-bootclean.sh S04mountdevsubfs.sh S12resize_lvm S23console-screen.sh S05bootlogd S13mountall.sh S24console-setup S06keymap.sh S14mountall-bootclean.sh S25alsa-utils S07keyboard-setup S15mountoverflowtmp S25bootmisc.sh S08hdparm S16procps S25fuse S08hostname.sh S16resolvconf S25later-readahead S08hwclockfirst.sh S16udev-mtab S25screen-cleanup S08lvm2 S16x11-common S25urandom S09checkroot.sh S17ifupdown S26stop-bootlogd-single S10hwclock.sh S18networking r...@tjener:~# Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org