On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Kylo Ginsberg wrote: > I use this line in /etc/inittab (assuming you've built busybox to include sh): > > ttyCPM0::respawn:-/bin/sh
(first, a caveat: even though this is the 2.6 kernel, i'm still using devfs for historical reasons. that will change shortly but may be part of my problems.) i'm pretty sure i tried that combo, and several others like it, and i finally had success with the following entry in /etc/inittab: ::respawn:/bin/sh < /dev/console > /dev/console 2> /dev/console yes, it's disgusting but it works. once i got a prompt, i noticed that these are the contents of /dev: crw------- 1 root root 204, 46 Dec 31 1969 <NULL>0 crw------- 1 root root 204, 47 Dec 31 1969 <NULL>1 crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 Oct 2 08:56 console crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 7 Dec 31 1969 full drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 input crw-r----- 1 root root 1, 2 Dec 31 1969 kmem crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 11 Dec 31 1969 kmsg drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 loop crw-r----- 1 root root 1, 1 Dec 31 1969 mem drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 misc crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Dec 31 1969 null crw-r----- 1 root root 1, 4 Dec 31 1969 port crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 2 Dec 31 1969 ptmx drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 pts drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 pty crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 8 Dec 31 1969 random drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 rd lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Sep 25 1969 root -> rd/0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 shm crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 0 Dec 31 1969 tty crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 9 Dec 31 1969 urandom crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 Dec 31 1969 zero in other words, no /dev/ttyCPM0 which may be why that first solution never worked (i'm still fuzzy on support for the serial/console ports so i'm reading up on that now.) but given that i have a /dev/console, i'll stick with that for now until i have a better fix. and what's the two "NULL" entries up there? those are new to me. rday
