Re: Init single and Serial console : How to ?

[Russell King]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:32:45AM +0200, Paul Rolland wrote:
> Got this one working :
> 
> LILO: linux init=/sbin/sulogin /dev/ttyS0
> 
> It finally asked me to enter root password, I did my maintenance, 
> and then...
> /sbin/reboot did nothing
> leaving the shell (exit) said :
> Attempting to kill init
> Panic, will reboot in 30 seconds.
> (or something like that), but it didn't restart, and I had to reboot
> the machine...
> Is this the expected behaviour ?

Yes, since you exited the process which was pretending to be the init
program.  Basically, whatever program is pretending to be init must
never exit or be killed off - it's special.

You probably wanted to do /sbin/reboot -f

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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