Lenny on PPC - unable to determine your TTY name
I'm attempting to install Lenny on a PowerPC device (routerboard 600). I've got the board to Boot but cannot login on the serial console.
Message is below - this shows up regardless of the username [ 1.901624] Freeing unused kernel memory: 228k init INIT: version 2.86 booting INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 (none) login: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (none) console (none) login: root Unable to determine your tty name. (none) login: admin Unable to determine your tty name. .config shows that kernel was compiled with console support root@lamp:~/rb600# grep console linux-2.6.28.2-rb600-airwire1.config CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttyS0,115200" /etc/inittab # The default runlevel. id:2:initdefault: T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L console 115200 vt100 /etc/fstab root@lamp:/media/cf/etc# cat fstab proc /proc proc default 0 0 /dev/sdb2 / ext3 notail 0 0 /etc/securetty root@lamp:/media/cf/etc# head securetty # /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login. # See securetty(5) and login(1). console # Standard serial ports ttyS0 ttyS1 root@lamp:/media/cf/dev# ls -la console crw--w--w- 1 root root 5, 1 Aug 26 15:17 console root@lamp:/media/cf/dev# If I try changing /etc/inittab T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L console 115200 vt100 To Be : S0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100 Then I get nothing on Serial in/output following 'Entering Runlevel: 2' - which tells me that's wrong - I also see 'respawning to fast' which tells me that getty is dieing because it doesn't like ttyS0. But I DON'T see any respawn errors when I use the first inittab above, so I think getty's working there OK, but I have no idea why it can't get my tty name.... I thought that maybe I need to add console=ttyS0 to the Kernel Parameters but that didn't seem to work either. Outta ideas - looking for clues Thanks, Z |
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