[oe-users] How to respawn virtual terminal on ttyX?

[Roel]

Hello,

What I did last time was just use busybox's init and then extended the 
package "miniinit". Inside miniinit, add a folder using the distro name 
and then put a file named "inittab" with your modifications in that folder.

Panayot Daskalov wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having a problem instructing bitbake to add a line in /etc/inittab 
> which will respawn a virtual terminal on the VGA port along with the one 
> on the serial console. As far as I understood I should add a USE_VT="1" 
> in my machine.conf and this is enough. I tried several ways to do that 
> but now luck. Here is a little info about my configuration - in 
> machine.conf I have:
>
> USE_VT = "1"
> SYSVINIT_ENABLED_GETTYS="1"
> SERIAL_CONSOLE = "57600 ttyAM0"
>
> strange thing is that an entry for a serial console is added to 
> /etc/inittab based on the SERIAL_CONSOLE value, but using USE_VT does 
> not do anything. Also in my task-boot I have:
>
> DISTRO_INIT_MANAGER ?= "sysvinit"
>
> Does anybody have an idea how can I solve this? Any info is appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards,
> Panayot Daskalov
>
>   

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