On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 05:31:14PM -0700, kewlemer wrote: > In a line like - > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty1 > can anyone tell me what "9600" means? > > I'm asking this because in the UML book I found - > 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
It's a baud rate, and it's irrelevant for UML. > I didn't understand what 38400 was for and adding this line in inittab > caused this error - > "INIT: Id 0 respawning too fast" > 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 The "3" at the start should match the tty<n> at the end. So that should have been tty3, not tty1 there. > So in short can someone please tell me what I need to have in my > inittab so that I can access a UML console using the screen program on > host ? Fix the tty number and it should work. > Is is possible to mention the changes needed for inittab here- > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/old/UserModeLinux-HOWTO-5.html > Newbies like myself will find it a lot easier. Yup. Jeff -- Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
