Making an embedded system boot up properly can be quite a hurdle sometimes. Among the various problems you might encounter, those related to your root filesystem are some of the most common ones I have seen and among those a very frequent problem is not being akle to acquire an initial console/terminal.
These boot […]
For those of you wondering how to make Fedora Linux boot into text mode – here’s how to disable the graphics boot/login screen:
If you are running an older distribution you need to edit the file /etc/inittab (must be root) and change
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:
If you […]
PROBLEM:
The Linux init process gets an error that looks like this (in the stderr output):
INIT: cannot execute “/etc/init.d/rc”
Several things may cause this error but in my case it was happening because the rc script had #! /bin/sh on the first line, and /bin/sh was missing.
SOLUTION:
In /bin provide […]
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