From: Jeffrey Young <jyoung82@carolina.rr.com> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 19:52:19 -0400 Message-ID: <dhlggt86465ncpv54nlav7he27pla2bpvv@4ax.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Netra problem with login
I finally fixed this problem :-)....
The solution that worked for me was the following:
At the SILO prompt, I entered "linux single"
This booted the system and asked for the root password....This let me into the
system but all disks were mounted READ ONLY....
To change this, I went to the "/etc/rc.d" directory and ran the "boot"
script...This worked and let me into the system READ/WRITE....
I then edited "/etc/inittab" and commented out all virtual consoles 1-6...I
uncommented the S0 entry to allow the serial login..This finally allowed me
into the system at runlevel 3...
One note..,,The serial console should really be set through YAST's
configuration option so that it knows about the change...Otherwise it will be
commented out in "/ettc/inittab" the next time YAST is run...
Jeff
>On Sat, May 19, Jeffrey Young wrote:
>
>> Almost there on the Netra t1 105.....
>>
>> I've got Linux on the machine and YAST has rebooted......However, when the
>> system enters runlevel 3 and the 'login:' prompt is about to appear, I get the
>> following message:
>>
>> INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>> INIT: Id "2" 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 "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>>
>> This repeats every 5 minutes. I know this problem is caused by my /etc/inittab
>> file but I can't get into the system to edit the file. The is a headless box
>> accessed through the serial port so I assume from the posts I've been reading
>> that the Rescue Disk is not an option.....
>
>Do you have network access to the box ? (telnet, ssh, rlogin, ... )
>If you have installed over serial console with YaST2 or YaST, you
>only need to reboot. There is a bug that sometimes the init process
>does not see that /etc/inittab is changed and that it should spawn
>an getty on the serial line.
>
> Thorsten
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