Custom distro -- trying to learn from linode provided ubuntu

Does anyone know how the shift from inittab to upstart would effect a UML guest system?

I'm trying to get a full ubuntu desktop running on my linode. I posted about some of the problems I've been having here:

http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=12208

My current strategy is to build an ubuntu file system at home, to try to tweak it for UML as best I can, and to upload it. I've done that, and it hung during the boot process. I think it has to do with getty (but I'm not sure).

Caker provided a link to this page:

http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/Cu … stribution">http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/Custom_Distribution

Which tells me to edit inittab. Ubuntu feisty doesn't have inittab -- it uses upstart, and so it has a different config file, /etc/default/console-setup:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … +bug/61539">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/61539

I tried to get that right, but my system is hanging, so I figured I'd install the stripped down feisty we have available to us here, and steal some of the configs. It turns out that the linode feisty doesn't seem to be using upstart -- it has an inittab file, and no console-setup file.

I was wondering if anyone can shed any light on the upstart situation -- is linode's feisty using inittab because upstart doesn't work, or because it's the product of an upgrade of some sort, etc. And is anyone using upstart successfully?