[syslinux] PXEboot works but running into a wall at "login"

[Murali Krishnan Ganapathy]

Respawning too fast, jst means that the "agetty" did not succeed.
* Check if all your binaries have their required .so files.
* This can be hard sometimes, since some binaries/.so files do not refer 
to their dependent .so files by name, i.e. some of them have a 
"lib_%s.so" (where the %s later gets replaced with some string).
* It cannot be a libc version problem (it should have failed much before 
it actually did)

At this point my guess is a missing .so file or a missing device (to 
rule this out you can copy all the devicees from your server to this image).

- Murali

Gary Kypers wrote:
>>* To get a root shell without a login add this to
>>you /etc/inittab
>>--- begin include ---
>>tty2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -n -l /bin/bash
>>38400 tty2
>>tty3:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -n -l /bin/bash
>>38400 tty3
>>--- end include ---
>>This spawns a root shell on consoles 2 and 3 under
>>runlevels 1,2,3,4 and 5.
> 
> 
> When I run the above (after commenting out my
> inittab's lines which are:
> #1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
> #1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
> etc.
> I get 
>    "cannot execute "etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit"
> and
>   " cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc"
> then 
>   Id "tty2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
> minutes
>   Id "tty3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
> minutes
> 
> Could it be that agetty is Debian Linux and mingetty
> is redhat and the init process is exploding at
> inittab?
> 
> 
>>
>>* Authentication problem:
>>   Check /dev: you may be missing some devices (or
>>have wrong permissions).
>>   Like tty* zero, null....
>>
> 
> 
> The above device files are there (copied from the
> server's /dev directory. Also, I set the permissions
> to 666 for everything just in case. Did not help.
> 
> The problem appears to be immediately after the loging
> name is provided. Something is missing that the login
> process expects to see. Anyone have an idea what that
> might be?  (/etc/passwd /etc/shadow are there and
> copied from a working server)
> 
> 
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