OK i lost the bet :) 2011/3/19 Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz>: > On 19/03/11 14:42, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Now I'm stuck for idea as to what to try next. Anyone? > > The problem turned out to be that the inittab was running everything it had > to do, and was done. It closed the serial line (had several "getty" running > on /dev/tty1 through /dev/tty6, for some reason), and that's it. It wasn't > doing anything because it ran out of things to do. I removed the terminals > from the non-existing virtual consoles, and added one for /dev/ttyS0, and > the problem was resolved. > > More importantly is how I figured it out. Once I realized that the kernel > was running fine, I ran "strace -o log -p 1 -f" from single user mode, > before letting it continue with the boot. This gave me a log of everything > init and its derivatives was doing, which allowed me to debug what the > system was doing. As usual, strace to the rescue. > > The only mystery now left is why magic sysreq wasn't working merely because > /dev/ttyS0 was closed. After all, console messages were still going there. > Still, that's a mystery for another time. I'm off to play with my embedian > system now.... > > Shachar > > -- > Shachar Shemesh > Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. > http://www.lingnu.com > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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