booting target device.
Nathanael D. Noblet
nathanael at gnat.ca
Mon Oct 10 21:07:22 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 13:07 -0700, Devin Bayer wrote:
> Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm in the process of creating/testing the root filesystem on my
> > target device. Linux boots up, and goes through all the init scripts
> > that are there successfully except it doesn't produce a login screen. If
> > however I boot with single in the kernel commandline, and then manually
> > run the /etc/init.d/rcS file, it goes through these same init scripts,
> > and gives me a login prompt.
>
> Usually the login prompt isn't provided by the init scripts,
> but by the /etc/inittab file. The important lines are those
> containing getty:
>
> tty0::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty0
> tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
>
> If you have those lines and are still not getting a login
> prompt, then maybe the init scripts are never finishing. Try
> chaning all the "respawn" entries to "askfirst" and all the
> "sysinit" entries to "once". That should start the getties
> even if the init isn't finished. But I'm not sure how it will
> work with udev. Perhaps you will need a line like:
Nice to know about the options there, didn't know about askfirst... I'll
file that away in my to use one day...
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Nathanael D. Noblet
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