Init acting strange

Brian Eliot beliot at mvista.com
Thu Sep 20 02:53:42 EST 2001


> I've been trying to get init working for a while now but I can't getting
> logging in to work correctly, and I'm out of ideas, maybe someone can help
>
> I'm using HHL 2.0 and the ramdisk is made from the target app rpms. I'm using
> the default passwd file. Do shadow passwords or anything like that need to be
> compiled in the kernel for the hhl2.0 login stuff to work??
>
> here's what I'm seeing:
>
>   MontaVista Software's Hard Hat Linux 2.0
>
>   (none) login: root
>
>   MontaVista Software's Hard Hat Linux 2.0
>   ...

A read-only root filesystem (or filesystem read-only to write attempts by root)
will cause this symptom.
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