> On Aug 7, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch> wrote:
> 
> When using non-tty consoles (e.g. VirtIO console /dev/hvc0) the
> current init system fails with:
> process '/sbin/getty 115200 hvc0' (pid 545) exited. Scheduling for restart.
> can't open /dev/ttyhvc0: No such file or directory
> 
> The first field needs to be a valid device. The BusyBox inittab example
> explains as follows:
> "<id>: WARNING: This field has a non-traditional meaning for BusyBox init!
> 
> The id field is used by BusyBox init to specify the controlling tty for
> the specified process to run on.  The contents of this field are
> appended to "/dev/" and used as-is."
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
> ---
> meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
> index 5e91a26..4765c28 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
> @@ -286,8 +286,8 @@ do_install () {
>                         for i in $tmp
>                         do
>                                 j=`echo ${i} | sed s/\;/\ /g`
> -                                label=`echo ${i} | sed -e 's/tty//' -e 's/^.*;//' -e 's/;.*//'`
> -                                echo "tty$label::respawn:${base_sbindir}/getty ${j}" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
> +                                id=`echo ${i} | -e 's/^.*;//' -e 's/;.*//‘`

what cmd is this piping it to now ?

> +                                echo "$id::respawn:${base_sbindir}/getty ${j}" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
>                         done
>                 fi
>         fi
> --
> 2.9.0
>