Making an embedded system boot up properly can be quite a hurdle sometimes. Among the various problems you might encounter, those related to your root filesystem are some of the most common ones I have seen and among those a very frequent problem is not being akle to acquire an initial console/terminal. These boot problems […]
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How to disable Linux FC graphical boot (start in text mode)
For those of you wondering how to make Fedora Linux boot into text mode – here’s how to disable the graphics boot/login screen: If you are running an older distribution you need to edit the file /etc/inittab (must be root) and change id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: If you are running a NEWER distribution can […]
INIT: cannot execute “/etc/init.d/rcS” (or rc)
PROBLEM: The Linux init process gets an error that looks like this (in the stderr output): INIT: cannot execute “/etc/init.d/rc” Several things may cause this error but in my case it was happening because the rc script had #! /bin/sh on the first line, and /bin/sh was missing. SOLUTION: In /bin provide a link called […]