[ltp] Urgent:No boot a tp600x bios update!

[Tino Keitel]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:07:18 -0500, Tod Harter wrote:
> My guess would be that you are running into a problem with getty attaching to 
> your virtual console device. Normally a running Linux system with virtual 
> consoles will have some process like so running:
> 
> root      2275  0.0  0.0  1392    4 tty2     S    Apr01   0:00 /sbin/mingetty 
> tty2
> root      2276  0.0  0.0  1392    4 tty3     S    Apr01   0:00 /sbin/mingetty 
> tty3
> root      2277  0.0  0.0  1392    4 tty4     S    Apr01   0:00 /sbin/mingetty 
> tty4
> root      2278  0.0  0.0  1392    4 tty5     S    Apr01   0:00 /sbin/mingetty 
> tty5
> root      2279  0.0  0.0  1392    4 tty6     S    Apr01   0:00 /sbin/mingetty 
> tty6

This is not the case in single user mode, and this is the only level he can
use. Another way would be to boot into level 2 or higher and log in via
network to examine what exactly went wrong.

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