On Wednesday 10 October 2007, tomy wrote: > Hi, > Currently I am doing Porting Linux to ARM platform. I was able to run > the Linux Kernel (2.6) , but facing some problem in run levels.There > was no initdefault entry in the inittab file, so i have added that > with id:3:initdefault: , but in the next boot up it is giving an > error like "Bad inittab entry". And also while running "runlevel" > command it is giving "unknown". So what will be the reason for these. > Is there any other configuration or settings required for this? Also > I wanted to know whether run levels are mandatory in Linux ?.If it is > not, who decides this? Please post to this list in text. HTML mail doesn't go down well. This is not a kernel issue so it's actually off-topic, but since you posted anyway, here goes: Your initdefault line is correct, so I would say it's a different line that is problematic. Please post the whole file. Runlevels are not mandatory. If there is no "init=" kernel parameter, the kernel will look for init in a few places and run that with PID 1. It usually finds /sbin/init on most distros. init then runs the various runlevel scripts, all described in 'man init'. Try boot with parameter 'init=/bin/bash' on a regular distro to see how it all fits together alan -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
