[lug] Booting issue. Deb Etch

[Gary Hodges]

Gary Hodges wrote:
> I attempted an upgrade (Sarge -> Etch) on a AMD K6-III machine, and was 
> having an issue during the boot process.  I finally gave up and just 
> reinstalled.  Same problem.
> 
> The problem:
> During the boot process it gets to a boot message saying udev is being 
> fully populated.  Then I get two messages about the BusLogic adapter 
> being successful, then...
> 
> INIT: Cannot execute /sbin/getty
> INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id 2 respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id 3 respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id 4 respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id 6 respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes
> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
> INIT: Id 5 respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes
> 
> If left it seems to repeat in some sense.  If I hit Ctrl C after the 
> second BusLogic message it sometimes completes the boot process.  It 
> sometimes produces those INIT messages too.  I don't know if Ctrl C does 
> anything, but it gives me something to try.
> 
> I have the 2.6.18-6-486 kernel installed.  I tried the 2.6.18-6-686 
> kernel but it segfaults during the boot.  Once running the machine seems 
> to be OK.

A little research later...  I'm gathering from some web searching that 
maybe I should comment one or more, or maybe all, of the following lines 
from the /etc/inittab file.

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

Does this sound right?