[busybox] No such device tty2, tty3, tty4 on embedded system

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 20 May 2008 18:07, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
>  I am not sure about him but mine /etc/inittab does not carry any
> tty[2-5] but it showed the same messages and linking /dev/tty[2-5]
> against /dev/null was the first workaround which shut up the busybox.
> If it could be of any help my system is a UMLinux but before launching
> it I unset the DISPLAY environment variable:
> 
> http://lugge.wikidot.com/tar2loop
> 
>  and the used busybox is the last version 1.10.2, config could be
> retrieved here:
> 
> http://lugge.wikidot.com/local--files/tar2loop/busybox.config
> 
>  here the /etc/inittab:
> 
> # This is run first except when booting in single-user mode
> #
> ::sysinit:/etc/rc.sh
> 
> # /bin/sh invocations on selected ttys
> #
> # Start an "askfirst" shell on the console (whatever that may be)
> ::askfirst:-/bin/sh
> # Start an "askfirst" shell on /dev/tty2-4
> #tty2::askfirst:-/bin/sh
> #tty3::askfirst:-/bin/sh
> #tty4::askfirst:-/bin/sh
> 
> # Stuff to do when restarting the init process
> ::restart:/sbin/init
> 
> # Stuff to do before rebooting
> ::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/reboot
> ::shutdown:/etc/shutdown

I guess you have CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_INITTAB off,
and your /etc/inittab just gets ignored.

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