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I'm using an old TS-7500 (https://www.embeddedarm.com/products/TS-7500) rugged platform for a home automation project (it was a freebie from my college) and I want to get the platform to boot into the Debian image automatically, by default, it boots into "busybox/initrd" and I have to enter the exit command to boot into Debian.

I want to make the system start up without any user-interaction so that if the platform power-cycles, it will start up without my assistance.

I've got a little Linux experience, but still not terribly great. Any suggestions?

Also... The /initrd directory looks like this:

`

ts7500:~# ls /initrd

bin      linuxrc-fastboot         linuxrc-usbroot  root    tmp

dev      linuxrc-nandmount        lost+found       sbin    ts7500.subr

etc      linuxrc-sdmount          mnt              shinit  usr

lib      linuxrc-sdroot           modules.tar.gz   slib    var

linuxrc  linuxrc-sdroot-readonly  proc             sys


Theshinit` script prompts upon boot (into busybox) that the user has information about help. It seems that I could execute some commands from this script, if only I could save changes! Every time I've tried changing the file, the changes are lost at reboot. I've read that this is due to the busybox platform loading into RAM?

Here's what the shinit file looks like:

> # Copyright (c) 2009, Technologic Systems.

> # All rights reserved.

> 

> . /ts7500.subr

> 

> case $- in *i*)

>         stty ospeed 115200 >/dev/null 2>&1

>         echo

>         echo "Type 'tshelp' for help" esac

Maybe I could just add the exit command to this script, but again, I can't save it!!!

Thank you!

Found the answer for my particular problem!!!!

There is some documentation for the Technologic TS-7500 platform on the company's website, but my poor lack of experience missed a critical detail! They provide some information as shown in the code snippet below:

rm linuxrc; ln -s /linuxrc-sdroot /linuxrc; save

I misunderstood and thought that this should be entered as one single command. Turns out, I needed to enter it as three sequential commands:

# rm linuxrc

# ln -s /linuxrc-sdroot /linuxrc

# save

Additionally, these commands should all be entered in the BusyBox prompt, not Debian.

Additional documentation from Technologic:
https://wiki.embeddedarm.com/wiki/TS-7500