The '-/bin/sh' permanently restarts

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 29 October 2009 16:06:54 Detlef Vollmann wrote:
> Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> > I suggest you just run a sh on e.g. ttyS0 if you're debugging and turn
> > it off if you're not. My favourite link as a stub:
> > http://repo.or.cz/w/buildroot.git?a=blob_plain;f=target/generic/target_bu
> >sybox_skeleton/etc/inittab;hb=HEAD
> 
> Sorry, I'm probably missing something:
> How do you start the shell if you don't have a shell?
> This looks to me like a hen-and-egg problem.

shell's arent init / process managers.  use init.
-mike
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