Re: serial console problem

[Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> [Please cc me, I'm not on the list]
> 
> I have a headless Netra iServer (Sparc 20) which I tried to upgrade to
> potato.  Now whenever I try to boot to multiuser mode (single-user is
> fine) it says:
> 
> modprobe: can't locate module char-major-4
> 
> about 20 times followed by:
> 
> INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "2" respawni
> INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

Does a sysvinit upgrade have replaced your /etc/inittab file ?
All the lines starting with 1 to 6 have to be commented out and a T1:... line
should exists to connect to a serial console.

Regards.

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