<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:24px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:"Google Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px">Dear systemd mailing list,</p><p style="margin:24px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:"Google Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px">I am trying to finish the boot process for systemd inside the chroot. I have followed the instructions in the documentation, but I am still having some problems.  I'm running focal fossa on a chromebook.  </p><p style="margin:24px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:"Google Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px">The following is typical output:</p><p style="margin:24px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-break:break-word;font-family:"Google Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31)">[...$ sudo systemctl start systemd-journald<br>Running in chroot, ignoring request: start...]      </span><font color="#ff0000">### Showing that systemd</font><font color="#1f1f1f"> is bailing out because of the chroot.</font></p><p style="margin:24px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:"Google Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px">[...$ <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">ps --no-headers -o comm 1</span></p>init...]   ### showing the Chromebook is using init at PID 1<div><br></div><div>[...$ file /sbin/init<br>/sbin/init: symbolic link to /lib/systemd/systemd ...} <font color="#ff0000">### showing that init and systemd are</font> linked in the chroot.<br><p style="margin:24px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:"Google Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px">[...$ <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">stat /sbin/init</span></p><p style="margin:24px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-break:break-word;font-family:"Google Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">File: /sbin/init -> /lib/systemd/systemd  ...]   </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font color="#666666">  ### Showing that systemd is in use.</font></span></p><p style="margin:24px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-break:break-word;font-family:"Google Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">{...$ </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">ls /usr/lib/systemd }  </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font color="#ff0000">### Shows the systemd files are loaded.  </font></span></p><p style="margin:24px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:"Google Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">[...$ </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">systemctl is-active --quiet service</span></p>System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.<br>Failed to connect to bus: Host is down  ...]  <font color="#ff0000"><b>###   Systemd not active in chroot</b></font></div><div><font color="#ff0000"><b><br></b></font></div><div><b><font color="#000000">I'm wondering if adding a line in the rc would help complete the boot process.  </font><br></b><p style="margin:24px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:"Google Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br>Can you please help me troubleshoot this issue?<br><br>Thank you for your time.<br><br>yours truly,</p><p style="margin:24px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:"Google Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px">Benjamin Godfrey</p></div></div>