From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 18:25:15 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Unable to login as root to new buildroot system In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20150726182515.1e0b67c8@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Adam Baxter, On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:25:00 -0700, Adam Baxter wrote: > I'm using the latest Git version of buildroot and the following config - > https://github.com/voltagex/serial-vm-buildroot > > It builds and boots with qemu just fine, but no matter what combination of > getty/no getty/shell/root password I use, I can't login. Even with a blank > root password I'm told that the password is incorrect, and I can't work out > how to make it boot straight to a root prompt. > > Can anyone help? The repo above should be able to be built with make > serial_defconfig, but if there's still hardcoded paths to a 'voltagex' or > 'ubuntu' user you'll have to let me know how to remove them. Your configuration has: BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_OPTIONS="-n" Are you sure you really want this getty option? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com