On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Clive Davies wrote:
> INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>
> appearing on my root console, where x is any number between 1 and 6
> inclusive.
>
> Can anyone give me any clues as to why this happens? Hopefully this is an
> easy question for someone.
Something seems to be wrong with your getty. Have a look at /etc/inittab
which program acts as a getty and check that it is working correctly. You
could also try to look at /var/log/messages to see if your getty program
exits abnormally (something like segfaults or the like).
To do all this, try dropping into a shell at bootup using the kernel
command line "init=<path_to_your_shell>" (without quotes of course).
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