RE: [iPAQ] evil qpe-ppp

pass
        init=/bin/sh
on kernel commandline (e.g., in bootldr linuxargs)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Gritsch [mailto:gritsch@iue.tuwien.ac.at]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 6:10 PM
> To: qpe-devel; ipaq
> Subject: [iPAQ] evil qpe-ppp
>
>
> Hi!
>
> After installing the qpe-ppp IPKG, I no longer had a serial
> connection
> to my iPAQ, since the package modified /inittab in a way that ppp is
> started after booting.
>
> So I uninstalled qpe-ppp (with qpe-konsole) which made things even
> worse, since the modification of /inittab is not performed as some
> postinstall script, but rather overwrites (!) the file with
> its own one,
> and so it gets removed completely when qpe-ppp is
> uninstalled. This is
> a really bad thing, since while booting I get asked
>
> INIT: version 2.78 booting
> INIT: No inittab file found
>
> Enter runlevel:
>
> and there is no number which leads to a login prompt.
>
> So how can I get to a prompt so that I can send a /inittab
> file to the
> iPAQ? Help really needed.
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Markus
>
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Received on Tue Jan 29 14:16:47 2002