[Solved:] ArchLinux (as mentioned on Olimex web page) does'nt start

[flavigny]

Hello,

on 20121108, Oooops, zgyarmati give the way; it was a mistake in original /etc/inittab file, see new post, change ttyAM0 to ttyAMA0

I left this topic for information purpose.

After reading the answer by Kean below, I tried http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/olinuxino and it runs.

on November, 7, 2012, I have retried, the Olimex way, there is no more error.
I apologize if it was a mistake of mine.
May be the "latest" has changed ?


Today, I receive USb Dongle (TP-Link, Wn722) so I moved to Archlinux for trying it.
I have loaded sdcard as indicated page: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/iMX233/_resources/ARCH-README.TXT
My OlinuxIno-maxi start booting, but freeze, here after the last lines:

:: Mounting Local Filesystems                                            [DONE]
:: Activating Swap                                                       [DONE]
:: Configuring Time Zone                                                 [DONE]
:: Initializing Random Seed                                              [DONE]
:: Removing Leftover Files                                               [DONE]
:: Setting Hostname: oli                                                 [DONE]
:: Saving dmesg Log                                                      [DONE]
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
:: Setting MAC address to d2:74:d7:73:15:d6                              [DONE]
:: Starting Syslog-NG                                                    [DONE]
usb0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
:: Starting Network                                                      [DONE]
:: Starting OpenNTPD                                                     [DONE]
:: Mounting Network Filesystems                                          [DONE]
:: Starting crond daemon                                                 [DONE]
:: Starting Secure Shell Daemon                                          [DONE]
INIT: Id "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

(I have not yet plugged Usb wifi adapter)
no better if I remove ethernet cable.

What is wrong ?
Regards
PO.

[zgyarmati]

Can you check what name your serial port got from the kernel (should be visible eariler in the boot output)? And also a cat /etc/inittab might be useful.
Probably you have to modify your in inittab the getty line to use ttyAM0 (or whatever name your serial port got)

[Kean]

You might want to try the instructions under the Installation tab of this page
http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/olinuxino

These instructions have worked fine for me.  The instructions you linked to might be a bit out of date.

Kean