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To: Barry Wu <wqb123@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: about serial console problem 
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:51:25 -0700 (PDT), 
Barry Wu <wqb123@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I am porting linux 2.4.3 to our mipsel evaluation
>board. Now I meet a problem. Because I use edown
>to download the linux kernel to evaluation board.
>I update the serial baud rate to 115200.
>I use serial 0 as our console, and I can use
>printk to print debug messages on serial port.
>But after kernel call /sbin/init, I can not
>see "INIT ...  ..." messages on serial port.

Probably you did not code the console boot parameters correctly.  In
LILO, append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200".  printk is written to
all consoles, init messages are only written to the last console
specified.