On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Prajosh Premdas
[off-list ref]wrote:

Hi Dave

I tried booting with the root file system in my flash and uImage i copy
using TFTP everything is fine.


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Dave Hylands [off-list ref] wrote:

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Hi Prajosh,

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Prajosh Premdas
[off-list ref] wrote:

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Hi
I am stuck with a problem. inittab is not executing after my Linux box

boots

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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

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key is generated, my box just waits there infinity. Its not starting a

new

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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?

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Dave Hylands
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http://www.davehylands.com

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Regards,

Prajosh Premdas

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Hi Prajosh,

Could you post what exact error are you getting.
I had a very similar problem recently when trying to boot the kernel using
tftp and then mounting the Rootfs over NFS.
The issue I faced was that the Rootfs' /dev directory was not correctly
populated and was missing the /dev/console device.

I was getting an error on the lines of "Unable to start init console" and I
too spent time mucking about in my inittab.


Thanks,
Raseel
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