[Clfs-support] Cannot login on serial port (embedded ARM, busybox)

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On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Andrew Bradford <bradfa at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Andrew Bradford <bradfa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Based on your pastebin, your bootscirpts aren't executing.  There
> > should be some nice "OK" messages printed out for things like doing
> > the mounts, bringing up networking, and starting services.  Your
> > output doesn't appear to have any of that.
>
> Another explanation is that your bootscripts are executing, but
> they're putting their output somewhere else.  That somewhere else
> might also be where you're logging into?  But I'm not sure of that
> idea.  Just a thought.
>

That thought had occurred to me and that is why I sent messages to a file as
well to the console.  For example, I added the line:

touch /var/log/test0.txt

to startup. I never saw the file appear. I know that /var/log is mounted and
can be written because I see wtmp in it and I see it grow with each boot and
each login attempt. Since the RFS is NFS mounted, I can look into it from
the host.  Is there any file that might give me more insight?  Keep in mind
that if I leave sysinit in inittab such that is tries to run startup, the
/proc, /sys and other file systems will be not be created.  If I change that
entry to "mount -a"  these file systems are created.  Of course, if I do
that, "mount -a" is the only thing that executes -- other than a script, I
don't know how to get multiple statements to execute.


> -Andrew
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