Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 5 authors, 2011-06-21

inittab is not executing after my Linux box boots up

From: Dave Hylands <hidden>
Date: 2011-06-14 17:19:50

Hi Prajosh,

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Prajosh Premdas
[off-list ref] wrote:
Hi
I am stuck with a problem. inittab is not executing after my Linux box boots
up.
The problem in detail. I have a linux box, i load the Linux image uImage
using TFTP and my root file system is configured in NFS. After the security
key is generated, my box just waits there?infinity. Its not starting a new
terminal.
The new terminal has been specified in the inittab as
ttyS0::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100 # GENERIC_SERIAL
Can anybody help me out with this problem?
Since i am not able to set password i cannot do a secure shell?access?too.
If I had to guess (since you didn't include any boot logs, that's
pretty much all I can do), I'd say that your NFS mount of the root
file system isn't working.

You can always try and see if you can even boot into a shell manually,
by adding init=/bin/sh to the kernel command line.

Have you tried booting without using NFS, and verifying that you can
mount the NFS volume?

-- 
Dave Hylands
Shuswap, BC, Canada
http://www.davehylands.com
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