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From: Brian Eliot <beliot@mvista.com>
To: Kevin Fry <kevin@carts.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Init acting strange
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:53:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BA8CD96.75D27252@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3BA7FE96.CA24D4EE@carts.com


> I've been trying to get init working for a while now but I can't getting
> logging in to work correctly, and I'm out of ideas, maybe someone can help
>
> I'm using HHL 2.0 and the ramdisk is made from the target app rpms. I'm using
> the default passwd file. Do shadow passwords or anything like that need to be
> compiled in the kernel for the hhl2.0 login stuff to work??
>
> here's what I'm seeing:
>
>   MontaVista Software's Hard Hat Linux 2.0
>
>   (none) login: root
>
>   MontaVista Software's Hard Hat Linux 2.0
>   ...

A read-only root filesystem (or filesystem read-only to write attempts by root)
will cause this symptom.
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-19 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-19  1:43 How can I tell if an interrupt has occured in MPC860? Choon Hooi Ng
2001-09-19  2:10 ` Init acting strange Kevin Fry
2001-09-19  2:15   ` Mark Hatle
2001-09-21  2:01     ` Kevin Fry
2001-09-19 16:53   ` Brian Eliot [this message]

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