On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Halldór Gylfason wrote:
> I was just setting up the 2.6.9 version of UML, but when booting up the
> terminals did not come up, and INIT complained with this remark:
>
> INIT: Id "0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> ..
>
> Earlier posts on this mailing list indicated that this could be a problem
> regarding a multithreaded version of glibc. On the contrary, in my case
> theproblem was that I had not selected the DEV_FS pseudo file system. After
> selecting that everything was OK. The DEV_FS support is however marked as
> being "OBSOLETE" in the config files, which discourages people from selecting
> it , with the result in my case tha I could not log into the system.
It sounds like the getty on /dev/tty0 can't start, and a likely reason is
that there is no device inode (/dev/tty0 itself). Devfs would have created
it. But in kernel 2.6.x official wisdom is to use udev:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ
I've had very good results with udev (plus some clinkers). Alternatively,
mount your root image on the host and create by hand:
mknod /mnt/dev/tty0 c 4 0
and any other inodes that you may not have. Or, of course, stick with
devfs.
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