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Date: 01 May 1999 21:10:55 -0700
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>  Try the vmlinux-initrd kernel from the test directory. It should drop 
>  you into a single user shell with a ram disk as root. You should be able 
>  to mount your root, and fix what's necessary. 

Almost.  I get to the prompt, but it doesn't appear to respond to
keyboard stimulii.  

[...]
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Welcome to Linux/MIPS
# 


I tried feeding it an assortment of console args too:

/dev/ttyS0
/dev/ttyS1
/dev/tty00
/dev/tty01

Any ideas?


--jeff