Jerry,
I had problems recently with spawning mingetty due to access permissions
in /dev. You might want to check /dev and /dev/tty[1-6] for existence
and modes.
Good luck, Kyle.
Jerry Beckmann wrote:
>
> I am having trouble setting up my inittab file correctly. Here is what I
> have right now:
>
> id:2:initdefault:
> si:S:sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.S
> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown
> l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.0
> l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.6
> 1:2:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1 linux
> 2:2:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 linux
> 3:2:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 linux
> 4:2:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 linux
> 5:2:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 linux
> 6:2:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 linux
>
> I have tried changing the initdefault level from to upto 5 along with the
> mingetty command, checked to insure all the libraries are in the /lib
> directory, and tried a few different configurations on the mingetty. I can
> get the system to work off of a floppy with the above settings, but when I
> copy all the files over to a harddisk and then run lilo, I get:
> Id xxx respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> for all the terminals. I have edited the fstab to include only /dev/hda2 /
> ext2 defaults and proc /proc proc defaults and mtab is empty.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Jerry
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