On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:38:42PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > I am trying to get a user-mode-linux (UML) kernel running. However, the > kernel won't boot. Just at the end of the boot sequence 'init' complains > about the getty's respawning too fast and decides to pause them for 5 > minutes. So, I never get to the login prompt... any ideas? hints? > > Linux kernel version 2.6.3 (with patch 2.6.3-rc2-1 applied). I had something similar happen to me a while back - IIRC it turned out to be some combination of CONFIG_DEVFS_* in the kernel config and the presense/absense of the devfsd package... Basically, getty could not find /dev/tty[0-5] files, which made it exit immediately... Unfortunately, I cannot remember exactly how I resolved it... Do you get any getty-related messages in /var/log/* Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: "Hey, Sam, how about a loan?" "Whattaya need?" "Oh, about $500." "Whattaya got for collateral?" "Whattaya need?" "How about an eye?" -- Sam Giancana
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