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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 09:41:12 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] How to login automatically without typing root in
 buildroot x86 64 QEMU?
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Hello,

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 07:24:24 +0100, Ciro Santilli wrote:

> How to configure buildroot to skip that and login directly?

Override the default /etc/inittab, and start a shell process directly
rather than a getty process. I.e, replace:

console::respawn:/sbin/getty -n -L  console 0 vt100 # GENERIC_SERIAL

by:

console::respawn:/bin/sh

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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