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

[Lance Jump]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Andrew Bradford <bradfa at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Lance Jump <lancej29 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, the symlink is there.  As a test, I changed the script name in the
> > inittab file and and I get an error:
> >
> > VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) on device 0:13.
> > Freeing init memory: 156K
> > init started: BusyBox v1.18.4 (2011-10-07 23:48:57 GMT)
> > can't run '/etc/rc.d/startupx': No such file or directory
> >
> > This suggests two things.  First, it is finding the correct file (without
> > the change) since I get no error and, second, that something is properly
> > processing inittab. What I can't tell is whether the message is coming
> from
> > the shell processor or something else (Busybox init?).
>
> Interesting...
> As a somewhat quick sanity check, if you build BusyBox 1.17.3 and
> apply the proper patches from that generation of the embedded book, do
> you get the same operation?
>
> Apply both the fixes and config patches at the beginning of the
> BusyBox build, section 7.4.  As I have output from a successful boot
> with this version, that might be a good sanity check.
> https://gist.github.com/874183
>
> Downloads you'll need:
> http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.17.3.tar.bz2
>
> http://svn.cross-lfs.org/svn/repos/patches/busybox/busybox-1.17.3-fixes-1.patch
>
> http://svn.cross-lfs.org/svn/repos/patches/busybox/busybox-1.17.3-config-1.patch
>
> If you grab a copy of the git repo for the embedded book, you can
> checkout commit 1b109e6eae092a7a1fe4a5580683e93507fa7e02 to get the
> old instructions at the last point where BusyBox was version 1.17.3.
>

I tried busybox 1.17.3 and got the same results.  I am running out of
ideas.  I was thinking about doing this directly in Ubuntu (10.4LTS) rather
than in the Linux Live chroot.  But I don't see how that should matter since
everything builds without complaint.  Can you suggest anything else to try?


>
> -Andrew
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