Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:44:19 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Init single and Serial console : How to ? |
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On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:32:45AM +0200, Paul Rolland wrote: > Got this one working : > > LILO: linux init=/sbin/sulogin /dev/ttyS0 > > It finally asked me to enter root password, I did my maintenance, > and then... > /sbin/reboot did nothing > leaving the shell (exit) said : > Attempting to kill init > Panic, will reboot in 30 seconds. > (or something like that), but it didn't restart, and I had to reboot > the machine... > Is this the expected behaviour ?
Yes, since you exited the process which was pretending to be the init program. Basically, whatever program is pretending to be init must never exit or be killed off - it's special.
You probably wanted to do /sbin/reboot -f
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