Hi all, ive tried compiling and installing a kernel, on a base system (created by "installation into directory" within YaST) that i have chrooted into. My problem is this. When i try to boot into the base system, using this base as an NFSROOT for another client machine (via network boot) i get some errors:

VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem)
Cannot read /etc/hostname

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Warning: unable to open an initial console

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login: (prompt)

When i try to login i get a failed login attempt, 'root' does not prompt for a password, just fails immediately, anything else asks for a password, and then fails after it is entered.

Obviously yast hasnt created a fully functional base system; my question is how to a resolve these problems to make my base system identical to a proper SUSE root file system? Cheers