example inittab [was: Re: tty]

Mon Sep 8 11:14:54 UTC 2008

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:44:05AM +0200, Sébastien Chrétien wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a problem with busybox
>
>When Linux boot, I have this message :
>
>init started: BusyBox v1.10.1 (2008-07-04 14:40:37    )
>
>starting pid 702, tty '': '/etc/rc.d/rc.S'
>Remounting root device with read-write enabled.
>mount: cannot read /proc/mounts: No such file or directory
>
>Attempt to remount root device as read-rewrite failed !
>This is going to cause serious problems...
>Cleaning mtab.
>rm: cannot remove '/etc/mtab': Read-only file system
>Mounting local filesystems.
>/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
>
>my inittab is :

note that this is not a busybox problem but a setup problem at your end.
Have a look at

- http://busybox.net/FAQ.html#job_control
  and then, since you really do _not_ want the above,
- examples/inittab
- docs/mdev.txt (if you use mdev)