[Buildroot] Problems with generating an x86 Image

[Lukas Hecht]

Hi Thomas,

maybe this idea could lead in the right direction. The process takes
about 12 seconds from leaving grub till stopping to boot, which sounds
about right to me for such a basic system.

I did not change anything on the getty, etc/inittab shows:
tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty -L tty1 0 vt100 # GENERIC_SERIAL

My hardware has three serial ports but i don't know any more details
about these at the moment.

Is there an easy way (like with booting a live ubuntu) to find out if
tty1 is the right one?

Thanks a lot,
Lukas


Am 03.03.2021 um 16:56 schrieb Thomas De Schampheleire:
> While I don't have experience specifically with using Buildroot for PC
> images, this symptom gives me the impression that the 'getty', which
> is supposed to give you a login prompt, is not going to the terminal
> you are looking at.
>
> Based on the boot output, do you agree that the system 'seems' booted,
> but you are just missing the login prompt?
>
> Have a look at /etc/inittab , based on the defconfig you started from,
> the getty is supposed to be assigned to 'tty1'.
> Did you change anything in this regard?
> Do you have something specific on this hardware with respect to tty /
> serial line?
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas