Re: Problems at booting

[Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@highlab.com>]

Craig Hollabaugh <craig@hollabaugh.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:05 +0100, Paula Saame=F1o wrote:
> > INIT: version 2.86 booting
> > /etc/init.d/rcS:
> > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "T0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
> 
> 
> > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
> > 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
> > 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
> > 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
> > 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
> > 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
> 
> 
> Paula,
> 
> It looks like your getty is not running correctly (maybe a lib or bin
> problem). Do you have a statically linked shell, like ash, on your
> system? Get that running first with

Could also be the drivers for the console and serial ports are not
initializing.  Do you see kernel boot messages indicating your console
devices are found or not?


-- 
Sebastian Kuzminsky