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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Paul Rolland <rol@as2917.net>
Cc: "'Bernd Eckenfels'" <ecki-news2004-05@lina.inka.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Init single and Serial console : How to ?
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:44:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040708084419.A13706@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407080532.i685WpX28901@tag.witbe.net>; from rol@as2917.net on Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:32:45AM +0200

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:32:45AM +0200, Paul Rolland wrote:
> Got this one working :
> 
> LILO: linux init=/sbin/sulogin /dev/ttyS0
> 
> It finally asked me to enter root password, I did my maintenance, 
> and then...
> /sbin/reboot did nothing
> leaving the shell (exit) said :
> Attempting to kill init
> Panic, will reboot in 30 seconds.
> (or something like that), but it didn't restart, and I had to reboot
> the machine...
> Is this the expected behaviour ?

Yes, since you exited the process which was pretending to be the init
program.  Basically, whatever program is pretending to be init must
never exit or be killed off - it's special.

You probably wanted to do /sbin/reboot -f

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-08  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-04  5:09 Init single and Serial console : How to ? Paul Rolland
2004-07-04 10:09 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-07-04 10:32   ` Paul Rolland
2004-07-08  5:32     ` Paul Rolland
2004-07-08  7:44       ` Russell King [this message]
2004-07-09  6:28         ` Paul Rolland
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-04  6:07 Milton Miller
2004-07-04  8:44 ` Paul Rolland

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