[Buildroot] Login exited

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Thu Sep 4 02:00:18 UTC 2008


On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 09:50:01AM +0800, Steven Woody wrote:
> Okay, we leave this 'decompressing' error for a moment.  I rebuilt

Actually on second reading I think that is a result of trying to mount
configfs on /config, and nothing to do with the root filesystem itself.

> (mostly using default options from buildroot) a very small rootfs
> image, 780k cramfs.  This time, it boots without the 'decompressing'
> error message, I still can not login in.  It's same: whatever user
> name I inputed, the getty restarted and I get nothing but another
> prompt.
> 
> If you experts can not guess what's is going on here, I hope you can
> tell me how to debug this kind of problem.  Tks.

Did you try booting with init=/bin/sh as I suggested two days ago? Or
modify your inittab to present you with a shell without needing to
login? This will help to break down the problem dramatically.

Hamish
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