From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: sbin/init problem From: David Woodhouse To: bharat Cc: PPC_LINUX In-Reply-To: <1810905.1088601425250.JavaMail.administrator@RnDserver> References: <1810905.1088601425250.JavaMail.administrator@RnDserver> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1088694325.14216.3033.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:05:25 +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 18:47 +0530, bharat wrote: > dev/console > Warning: unable to open an initial console. > it is responding to ping but not executing further > and not showing any shell prompt How would it show you a shell prompt? Through the console it failed to open? Make sure there's a /dev/console with major 5, minor 1. What is your console device? A serial port? What type? -- dwmw2 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/