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From: Michael S. Zick <minimod@morethan.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Linux kernel hangs after boot without any error!
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:17:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201108301717.43333.minimod@morethan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878vqaoa2j.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk>

On Tue August 30 2011, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Heiko" == Heiko Helmle <helman@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  Heiko> Just a thought - would it hurt much to start a getty on tty1 by
>  Heiko> default? at least on x86?
> 
> We used to do that, but it has the disadvantage that the console gets
> spewed with lots of errors about getty failing when you don't have a
> tty1 (E.G. for the fairly common case of no framebuffer console support
> in the kernel).
>

Perhaps a conditional message that shows only in the "no framebuffer"
case that clues the user about requiring an arch specific /dev/tty* ?
Or maybe even shows the link to the FAQ entry.

Mike 
> We currently don't do anything architecture specific for the rootfs
> skeleton, and I would prefer to keep it like that for simplicity
> reasons.
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-30 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-19  4:34 [Buildroot] Linux kernel hangs after boot without any error! Vasanth Ragavendran
2011-08-30 10:45 ` Michael S. Zick
2011-08-30 19:45   ` Heiko Helmle
2011-08-30 21:37     ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-08-30 22:17       ` Michael S. Zick [this message]
2011-08-31 17:49       ` Heiko Helmle

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