Hmm...

that could be it entirely ...

I'll try it out and let you know what happens.

Thanks for the tip Wernfried ;-)

Chris

Wernfried Haas wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:30:15PM +0200, Christopher Friedt wrote:
Originally, I ran into some trouble when I allowed the default init routine to run, because it froze on 'starting local'. I eventually discovered that was because my main serial device should be /dev/ttyAM0 instead of /dev/ttyS1 in /etc/inittab. I fixed that, and then found that I couldn't login as root, even after adjusting /etc/password to

You are talking about logging in via serial console, right?
I may be completely on the wrong track here, but you may need to add
ttyAM0 to /etc/securetty to be able to log in as root.

cheers,
        Wernfried

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