help with inittab

[Steve Iribarne (GMail)]

On 6/8/06, Chris Dumoulin <cdumoulin at ics-ltd.com> wrote:
> I am using the linux kernel 2.6.15 and initrd ramdisk image from ELDK
> 4.0. Currently, I seem to be able to boot without errors, but after the
> root filesystem is mounted, things just stop.
>
> I'm guessing that my problems are related to the setup of the RFS, and
> more specifically, my inittab file. Here is the output I get at boot time:
> Linux version 2.6.15 (cdumoulin at localhost.localdomain) (gcc version
> 4.0.0 (DENX ELDK 4.0 4.0.0)) #167 PREEMPT Thu Jun 8 6Built 1 zonelists
> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,57600 ip=off
> PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 8192 bytes)
> Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> Memory: 62120k available (968k kernel code, 272k data, 76k init, 0k highmem)
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an
> initrd
> Freeing initrd memory: 1404k freed
> Linux NoNET1.0 for Linux 2.6
> io scheduler noop registered
> io scheduler anticipatory registered
> io scheduler deadline registered
> io scheduler cfq registered
> Software Watchdog Timer: 0.07 initialized. soft_noboot=0 soft_margin=60
> sec (nowayout= 0)
> ipmi message handler version 38.0
> ipmi device interface
> IPMI Watchdog: driver initialized
> i8042.c: No controller found.
> Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
> serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 24) is a 16550A
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
> loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
>
> And here is my initttab file:
> ::sysinit:/etc/rc.sh
> ::askfirst:/bin/sh
> ::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/reboot
> ::shutdown:/sbin/swapoff -a
> ::shutdown:/bin/umount -a -r
> ::restart:/sbin/init
>

Doesn't seem like you are respawning any login stuff?  Where are your
tty's?  Change the askfirst to /bin/sh and you should get a shell at
the start assuming you have /bin/sh.


> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris Dumoulin
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