Re: ssh won't work from initial ram disk in 2.4.18

From: Kurt Garloff (garloff@suse.de)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 09:28:05 EST

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On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 07:28:05AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> I'm using a 2.4.18 kernel and ssh 3.0.2, and I'm trying to run ssh from the
> initrd, and it's refusing to work. The exact same setup works booted from a
> small partition, but if I take a tarball of that filesystem and dump it into
> a ramdisk, ssh always fails to authenticate. (Public key or password, it
> doesn't matter. When I run it from sh in initrd, it doesn't even prompt me
> for a password, just prints out three failure messages and exits. The same
> setup from /dev/hda1 works just fine...)

ssh tries to talk to your console.
Which apparently has not yet been assigned / set up.

Regards,

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