[BusyBox] No more tasks for init -- sleeping forever.
Tom Cameron
TCameron at stmarysbank.com
Mon Jul 9 17:20:35 UTC 2001
How is the system set up? Can you give more details? For instance, is it
devfs, or standard /dev entries? Is there a /dev entry for the device
you're trying to use as a console? Have you tried it without an inittab
file?
--
Thomas Cameron
Network Technician / Operations Specialist
St. Mary's Bank
"First in the Nation, Second to none"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johannes Zellner [SMTP:johannes at zellner.org]
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 7:14 PM
> To: busybox at busybox.net
> Subject: [BusyBox] No more tasks for init -- sleeping forever.
>
> Hi,
>
> I just tried busybox for the vtech helio (a PDA).
> Unfortunately I get the boot message
>
> No more tasks for init -- sleeping forever.
>
> having the following /etc/inittab:
> ::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
> ttyS0::askfirst:/bin/sh
> tty2::askfirst:/bin/sh
>
> apparently /etc/init.d/rcS gets executed, I can put some
> 'echo' messages there which get printed.
>
> What's the problem ?
> (replacing 'askfirst' by 'respawn' doesn't help either)
>
> any help much appreciated.
>
> --
> Johannes
>
>
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