Re: Problem in booting off a pxa270 board

[hoefle marco <marco.hoefle@nanotronic.ch>]

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 17:16 +0530, Saurabh Kadekodi wrote:
> Hi All,
> Scheduling for restart.
> process '/sbin/syslogd -n -m 0' (pid 253) exited. Scheduling for restart.
> process '/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages' (pid 254) exited.
> Scheduling for restart.
> process '/sbin/syslogd -n -m 0' (pid 259) exited. Scheduling for restart.
> process '/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages' (pid 260) exited.
> Scheduling for restart.
> process '/sbin/syslogd -n -m 0' (pid 265) exited. Scheduling for restart.
> process '/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages' (pid 266) exited.
> Scheduling for restart.
> 
> This latter part then keeps on recurring indefinately.

In /etc/inittab of the target filesystem you find that syslogd is
launched in respawn mode.

# Logging junk
null::sysinit:/bin/touch /var/log/messages
#null::respawn:/sbin/syslogd -n -m 0
null::respawn:/sbin/klogd -n


Comment this line and launch syslogd later from command line to see why
it exits.
Using NFS to boot the target root eases debugging a lot, but your Kernel
needs to enable NFS boot first.

Cheers,
Marco