From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: raseelbhagat@gmail.com (Raseel Bhagat) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:40:37 +0200 Subject: inittab is not executing after my Linux box boots up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Prajosh Premdas wrote: > Hi Dave > > I tried booting with the root file system in my flash and uImage i copy > using TFTP everything is fine. > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Dave Hylands wrote: > >> Hi Prajosh, >> >> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Prajosh Premdas >> wrote: >> > Hi >> > I am stuck with a problem. inittab is not executing after my Linux box >> boots >> > up. >> > The problem in detail. I have a linux box, i load the Linux image uImage >> > using TFTP and my root file system is configured in NFS. After the >> security >> > key is generated, my box just waits there infinity. Its not starting a >> new >> > terminal. >> > The new terminal has been specified in the inittab as >> > ttyS0::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100 # GENERIC_SERIAL >> > Can anybody help me out with this problem? >> > Since i am not able to set password i cannot do a secure >> shell access too. >> >> If I had to guess (since you didn't include any boot logs, that's >> pretty much all I can do), I'd say that your NFS mount of the root >> file system isn't working. >> >> You can always try and see if you can even boot into a shell manually, >> by adding init=/bin/sh to the kernel command line. >> >> Have you tried booting without using NFS, and verifying that you can >> mount the NFS volume? >> >> -- >> Dave Hylands >> Shuswap, BC, Canada >> http://www.davehylands.com >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Prajosh Premdas > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > Hi Prajosh, Could you post what exact error are you getting. I had a very similar problem recently when trying to boot the kernel using tftp and then mounting the Rootfs over NFS. The issue I faced was that the Rootfs' /dev directory was not correctly populated and was missing the /dev/console device. I was getting an error on the lines of "Unable to start init console" and I too spent time mucking about in my inittab. Thanks, Raseel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20110615/4dd2cbac/attachment.html