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Re: [ts-7000] cannot find inittab, and can't figure out how to bypass

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] cannot find inittab, and can't figure out how to bypass
From: John Gray <>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:51:00 +0100
On 01/06/09 15:25:14, pattykirsch wrote:
> I came in this morning to find my ts7800 board not responding over 
> the
> network, so I rebooted the system.  Still nothing, so I hooked up to
> the serial console and rebooted again.  The bootloader starts, then
> there's a message about inittab can't be found.  It asks for a
> runlevel but whatever I try it just says no more processes at that
> runlevel and then no more prompt even.  

[snip]

If you can catch the bootloader to pass kernel parameters, you can 
bypass the normal init by adding init=/bin/sh onto the kernel command 
line. This will bypass the need for inittab so that you can possibly 
work out what has gone wrong - this is a generic Linux kernel feature 
rather than TS-specific.

Imaging the card might still be easier though!

Regards

John


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