[fedora-arm] Kernel failing to boot at guruplug

[Bernhard Schuster]

2010/7/22 Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com>

> On 07/22/10 14:18, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
>     agetty /dev/ttymxc0 115200 vt100-nav
>>>
>>
>  Some weeks ago I allready used the fedora rootfs in combination with the
>> factory kernel / uboot, which did not use the init boot option. How did
>>
>
> Yeah without init= it defaults to the distro /sbin/init, which fires up all
> the initscripts accordingly.  It's really slow.
>
>
>  they achiev it to get a login prompt? What did they do, I am really
>> curious and would like to recreate that behaviour
>>
>
> 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.
>
> Or, cut out all the slow init stuff and run it by hand on your serial
> console as shown in the previous mail.
>
> -Andy
>

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.

Any ideas? Anybody flashed a custom kernel and got init working?

Regards

Bernhard
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