From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265792AbUGHFdC (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 01:33:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265795AbUGHFdC (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 01:33:02 -0400 Received: from tag.witbe.net ([81.88.96.48]:45696 "EHLO tag.witbe.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265792AbUGHFc6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 01:32:58 -0400 Message-Id: <200407080532.i685WpX28901@tag.witbe.net> Reply-To: From: "Paul Rolland" To: , "'Bernd Eckenfels'" , Subject: Re: Init single and Serial console : How to ? Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 07:32:45 +0200 Organization: AS2917.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <200407041032.i64AWTX21222@tag.witbe.net> Thread-Index: AcRhrwtNtyy11t7TSGSGoKSx/siFGQAAjYOQAL7e+VA= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, Got this one working : LILO: linux init=/sbin/sulogin /dev/ttyS0 It finally asked me to enter root password, I did my maintenance, and then... /sbin/reboot did nothing leaving the shell (exit) said : Attempting to kill init Panic, will reboot in 30 seconds. (or something like that), but it didn't restart, and I had to reboot the machine... Is this the expected behaviour ? Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex-AS2917 Network administrator and Peering Coordinator -- Please no HTML, I'm not a browser - Pas d'HTML, je ne suis pas un navigateur "Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it" > -----Message d'origine----- > De : linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org > [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] De la part de Paul Rolland > Envoyé : dimanche 4 juillet 2004 12:32 > À : 'Bernd Eckenfels'; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Objet : Re: Init single and Serial console : How to ? > > Hello, > > > this is only about terminal settings like flags and line > > speed, it is not > > related to presenting the login on the serial console. It is > > a good idea to > > remove this file and set the baud rate on the boot command line. > OK. > > > You must configure /sbin/sulogin which is called from init to run on > > /dev/console, then you will be fine. Also you should start > a getty on > OK, but remember that my problem is to find a way to access > the machine > when I only have a serial console and it doesn't complete the > "classical" > boot process because some init script at runlevel 3 is blocking... > > This means that I can't go up to the "configure > /sbin/sulogin", and need > a way to be given a serial prompt only by giving parameter at the LILO > prompt, considering that the kernel has already been > configured for serial > console. > > > /dev/ttySx for multi user modes (see the serial console howto) > This is already done. > > Regards, > Paul > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >