[ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)

[Dave Dowell]

Have you checked that a getty is being spawned against a tty device in 
/etc/inittab?
You can also comment out the getty that is being spawned against ttyS0 
there which is the cause of that "INIT: Id s0 respawing to fast.... " 
message.

Thanks
Dave

On 26/08/2011 22:18, Andrzej Telszewski wrote:
> On 08/26/2011 11:04 PM, lee jones wrote:
>> The bad news? I'm now as far in as "Loading
>> /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.map.gz" . The system all but stops
>> there, the only line it prints after some time is "INIT: Id "s0" respawning
>> too fast: disabled for 5 minutes".
> For 99% it means that INIT (/etc/inittab) can't open console on serial
> port, but the system should be running. Maybe try to play with serial
> console settings (proper /dev/tty* entry in /etc/inittab, etc) or try to
> setup network and SSH (on the miniroot) and then try to ssh to the device.
>