From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3PHmG110383 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:48:16 -0700 Received: from cvsftp.cotw.com (cvsftp.cotw.com [208.242.241.39]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3PHmFM10380 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:48:15 -0700 Received: from cotw.com (ptecdev3.inter.net [192.168.10.5]) by cvsftp.cotw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA13506; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:47:49 -0500 Message-ID: <3AE72A90.6CDEFAFE@cotw.com> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:50:40 -0700 From: Scott A McConnell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pete Popov CC: Wayne Gowcher , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: serial console, have linefeed but no command prompt References: <20010425150258.11719.qmail@web11901.mail.yahoo.com> <3AE70886.AEEC48D3@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Pete Popov wrote: > Wayne Gowcher wrote: > > What does your /etc/inittab look like? Wayne, As Pete was wondering most likely you are missing a line in your inittab # Run gettys in standard runlevels t0:123:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 DT115200 <------------ 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty6