Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Christopher Friedt <cfriedt@××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] root passwd with a stage3 filesystem? (for nfs-root purposes)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 15:21:59
Message-Id: 4655ADBA.2040905@visible-assets.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] root passwd with a stage3 filesystem? (for nfs-root purposes) by Wernfried Haas
1 Hmm...
2
3 that could be it entirely ...
4
5 I'll try it out and let you know what happens.
6
7 Thanks for the tip Wernfried ;-)
8
9 Chris
10
11 Wernfried Haas wrote:
12 > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:30:15PM +0200, Christopher Friedt wrote:
13 >> Originally, I ran into some trouble when I allowed the default init routine to run, because it froze on 'starting local'. I
14 >> eventually discovered that was because my main serial device should be /dev/ttyAM0 instead of /dev/ttyS1 in /etc/inittab. I fixed
15 >> that, and then found that I couldn't login as root, even after adjusting /etc/password to
16 >
17 > You are talking about logging in via serial console, right?
18 > I may be completely on the wrong track here, but you may need to add
19 > ttyAM0 to /etc/securetty to be able to log in as root.
20 >
21 > cheers,
22 > Wernfried
23 >
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