From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: premdas.prajosh@gmail.com (Prajosh Premdas) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:52:44 +0530 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 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20110614/14a84a68/attachment.html