<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/7/22 Andy Green <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy@warmcat.com">andy@warmcat.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 07/22/10 14:18, Somebody in the thread at some point said:<br>
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agetty /dev/ttymxc0 115200 vt100-nav<br>
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Some weeks ago I allready used the fedora rootfs in combination with the<br>
factory kernel / uboot, which did not use the init boot option. How did<br>
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Yeah without init= it defaults to the distro /sbin/init, which fires up all the initscripts accordingly. It's really slow.<div class="im"><br>
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they achiev it to get a login prompt? What did they do, I am really<br>
curious and would like to recreate that behaviour<br>
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I also did this a while back, it needed meddling in /etc/securetty and at that time /etc/inittab, nowadays it seems you have to meddle with upstart stuff somehow.<br>
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Or, cut out all the slow init stuff and run it by hand on your serial console as shown in the previous mail.<br><font color="#888888">
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</font></blockquote></div><br><div>Without that init thingy _nothing_ happened and my guruplug frooze after freeing kernel memory. Maybe init fails? The bash I get from init=/bin/bash only spits a error at when trying to init/telinit by hand.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any ideas? Anybody flashed a custom kernel and got init working?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Bernhard</div>