[oe] console-image: No login prompt

Ulf Samuelsson ulf_samuelsson at telia.com
Sat Oct 29 22:41:15 UTC 2011


2011-10-30 00:36, Ulf Samuelsson skrev:
> Have build console-image and I am running it on an AT91SAM9G20EK.
> The boot process freezes, and I have managed to verify that this
> happens after the init process has executed "finished.sh".
> (Put some print statements in this, and I see them)
>
> Then nothing...
> Normally I would get a login prompt

Is this somehow redirected to the non-existant screen?


>
> Have been searching for people with similar problems,
> and I found one that claimed that /etc/rcS.d/S03udev
> needs to run after /etc/rcS.d/S10checkout.
>
> I tried this but this does not make any difference.
> Is there some configuration item that enables/disables the console
> after init.
>
> finish.sh is linked from rcS.d/S99/finish.sh
>
> Is the problem, that the kernel stays in level 1 for some reason?
> Default run level is 5 (id:5:initdefault:) which I assume
>
> Does that make sense for a console-image?
>
> Should not level 3 be more appropriate if
> you do not have any graphics?
>
> Any reason why console I/O is redirected?
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>
> # /etc/inittab: init(8) configuration.
> # $Id: inittab,v 1.91 2002/01/25 13:35:21 miquels Exp $
>
> # The default runlevel.
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> # Boot-time system configuration/initialization script.
> # This is run first except when booting in emergency (-b) mode.
> si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
>
> # What to do in single-user mode.
> ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin
>
> # /etc/init.d executes the S and K scripts upon change
> # of runlevel.
> #
> # Runlevel 0 is halt.
> # Runlevel 1 is single-user.
> # Runlevels 2-5 are multi-user.
> # Runlevel 6 is reboot.
>
> l0:0:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 0
> l1:1:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 1
> l2:2:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 2
> l3:3:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 3
> l4:4:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 4
> l5:5:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 5
> l6:6:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 6
> # Normally not reached, but fallthrough in case of emergency.
> z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin
> S:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 ttyS0
>
>
>
>
>


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Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson





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