[knc1]

Originally Posted by BusterBrown

Hi all, now that I have my serial port hardware working with the Minicom program, thanks to the help provided in this forum, I am able to sign in to the framework but, can't get any further because of a permissions problem.

I started with being SU, chrown uucp /dev/ttyUSB2, started Minicom -s and allowed the kernel to finish loading.

That was on your desktop system.

Originally Posted by BusterBrown

I have searched google and this forum for answers but, seems no one else has had this problem.

Is mntroot rw the wrong command at this point? I try to work out my own problems but, sometimes I run into a dead end and it seems that playing around with K3's and the serial port may be getting obsolete with the newer models. Please see my error message below:

Now you are on a different *nix machine, the one at the far end of the cable, called a: Kindle.
You have to login there once you have arrived.
The quote that follows seems to be missing the "login: " line.
Is that a copy and paste error here?
Do you have 'capture' enabled on Minicom? Check the capture log you saved for the missing line before the following one:

Originally Posted by BusterBrown

Password:
#################################################
# N O T I C E * N O T I C E * N O T I C E #
#################################################
Rootfs is mounted read-only. Invoke mntroot rw to
switch back to a writable rootfs.
#################################################
[framework@kindle framework]$ mntroot rw
fbset: can't open '/dev/fb/0': Permission denied

That reads USERNAME@HOSTNAME CURDIRECTORY $
'$' == unprivledged user.

You can read the mntroot command - it is a shell script.
There you will find that it issues a command limited to the privledged user(s).

Solution: login as root.
From where you are now (as framework) do: su -l root
Then put in the password you computed from your serial number.