[oe] console-image: No login prompt

[Ulf Samuelsson]

2011-10-30 01:05, Ulf Samuelsson skrev:
> 2011-10-30 00:41, Ulf Samuelsson skrev:
>> 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?
>
> A little futher.
> If I enable SULOGIN and from SULOGIN do:
>
> $ init 2
>
> I get the login prompt,
> but SULOGIN uses the same serial line, so things get mixed up.
>
> It definitely looks like the system never leaves level 1 - why?
Tried with a different kernel.
2.6.30 has problems.
2.6.39 I get the login prompt.

Any clue why?


>>
>>>
>>> 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