From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200010100043.CAA10090@denx.local.net> To: clark@esteem.com cc: ppcboot-users@lists.sourceforge.net, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: Ethernet Trouble Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Oct 2000 17:02:39 PDT." <1.5.4.32.20001010000239.006b54d8@pop.esteem.com> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 02:43:27 +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message <1.5.4.32.20001010000239.006b54d8@pop.esteem.com> Conn Clark wrote: > > >Either it can't find init, or it's a shared library problem, or your > >console device is missing, or ... ... > Right now I think that it can't talk to the console or init uses a > function in ld.so.1 to spit a message to the console and is failing to load So what is /dev/console on your system? I know that it used to be a symlink to /dev/ttyS0 on sme older systems, which doesn't work any more. Make sure you have a character device major 5 minor 1, i. e. something like that: crw-r--r-- 1 root root 5, 1 Mar 22 2000 /dev/console Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de He'd been wrong, there _was_ a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower. - Terry Pratchett, _Mort_ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/