From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael S. Zick Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:17:41 -0500 Subject: [Buildroot] Linux kernel hangs after boot without any error! In-Reply-To: <878vqaoa2j.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> References: <878vqaoa2j.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <201108301717.43333.minimod@morethan.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Tue August 30 2011, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > >>>>> "Heiko" == Heiko Helmle 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. >