inittab is not executing after my Linux box boots up

[dinesh bhaskar]

Hi Prajosh,

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Prajosh Premdas <premdas.prajosh at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Please find the entire boot sequence here
>
> *RomBOOT*
> *
> *
>
> *Machine: Atmel AT91SAM9G20-EK*
> *Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback*
> *Clocks: CPU 396 MHz, master 132 MHz, main 18.432 MHz*
> *Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages:
> 16256*
> *Kernel command line: root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.0.0.1:/nfs ip=10.220.4.200:
> :10.220.4.35:::eth0:off console=ttyS0,115200*
>
> *MACB_mii_bus: probed*
> *eth0: Atmel MACB at 0xfffc4000 irq 21 (3a:1f:34:08:54:54)*
> *eth0: attached PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=ffffffff:00,
> irq=-1)*
>

Could it be the problem with the ethernet. Were you able to ping the LAN
when booted without the NFS?
Phy address seems to be wrong(ffff...) and the irq as well.

Dinesh

>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Raseel Bhagat <raseelbhagat at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Prajosh Premdas <
>> premdas.prajosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dave
>>>
>>> I tried booting with the root file system in my flash and uImage i copy
>>> using TFTP everything is fine.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Dave Hylands <dhylands at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Prajosh,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Prajosh Premdas
>>>> <premdas.prajosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > Hi
>>>> > I am stuck with a problem. inittab is not executing after my Linux box
>>>> boots
>>>> > up.
>>>> > The problem in detail. I have a linux box, i load the Linux image
>>>> uImage
>>>> > using TFTP and my root file system is configured in NFS. After the
>>>> security
>>>> > key is generated, my box just waits there infinity. Its not starting a
>>>> new
>>>> > terminal.
>>>> > The new terminal has been specified in the inittab as
>>>> > ttyS0::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100 # GENERIC_SERIAL
>>>> > Can anybody help me out with this problem?
>>>> > Since i am not able to set password i cannot do a secure
>>>> shell access too.
>>>>
>>>> If I had to guess (since you didn't include any boot logs, that's
>>>> pretty much all I can do), I'd say that your NFS mount of the root
>>>> file system isn't working.
>>>>
>>>> You can always try and see if you can even boot into a shell manually,
>>>> by adding init=/bin/sh to the kernel command line.
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried booting without using NFS, and verifying that you can
>>>> mount the NFS volume?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dave Hylands
>>>> Shuswap, BC, Canada
>>>> http://www.davehylands.com
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Prajosh Premdas
>>>
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>>
>> Hi Prajosh,
>>
>> Could you post what exact error are you getting.
>> I had a very similar problem recently when trying to boot the kernel using
>> tftp and then mounting the Rootfs over NFS.
>> The issue I faced was that the Rootfs' /dev directory was not correctly
>> populated and was missing the /dev/console device.
>>
>> I was getting an error on the lines of "Unable to start init console" and
>> I too spent time mucking about in my inittab.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Raseel
>>
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>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Prajosh Premdas
>
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