Hi Roel, thanks for the reply. Do you know if the same thing can be done for sysvinit instead of miniinit? I will try and see for myself, but I was wondering if you have any experience. One more thing - does this mean that using USE_VT etc. does not work anymore, anybody got a clue?
Thanks and best regards to all, Panayot Daskalov. -------------------------- Panayot Daskalov Software Engineer Multiprocessor Systems Ltd. Tel: +359 2 491 18 30 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: www.mps.bg www.followme.bg On 10/30/2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:10:37 +0800 From: Roel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [oe-users] How to respawn > virtual terminal on ttyX? To: Using OE > <[email protected]> Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hello, What I did last time was > just use busybox's init and then extended the package "miniinit". > Inside miniinit, add a folder using the distro name and then put a > file named "inittab" with your modifications in that folder. Panayot > Daskalov wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm having a problem instructing bitbake to add a line in > /etc/inittab > > > which will respawn a virtual terminal on the VGA port along with > the one > > > on the serial console. As far as I understood I should add a > USE_VT="1" > > > in my machine.conf and this is enough. I tried several ways to do > that > > > but now luck. Here is a little info about my configuration - in > > > machine.conf I have: > > > > > > USE_VT = "1" > > > SYSVINIT_ENABLED_GETTYS="1" > > > SERIAL_CONSOLE = "57600 ttyAM0" > > > > > > strange thing is that an entry for a serial console is added to > > > /etc/inittab based on the SERIAL_CONSOLE value, but using USE_VT > does > > > not do anything. Also in my task-boot I have: > > > > > > DISTRO_INIT_MANAGER ?= "sysvinit" > > > > > > Does anybody have an idea how can I solve this? Any info is > appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Panayot Daskalov > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-users
