From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 22:09:36 -0800 From: Chris Zimman To: Jerry Walden Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: custom PPC405GPr board almost boots - one last step Message-ID: <20030405060936.GA28528@mail.cryptoapps.com> Reply-To: Chris Zimman References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:24:16PM -0500, Jerry Walden wrote: > Well I'm getting much further now. Problem was I did not have ext2 > filesystem in > my kernel configuration. Now the initialization seems to complete and it > looks to > me like either a prompt is trying to print out, or some other type of text. > In any > case I am wonder when the boot gets as far as this one does, can or does > something > happen to the serial port? Does it try to bring up a console on the serial > port > and somehow is getting confused? > .? > 9H?.6??.??).?)!).!)!?..??..???9.???.?).????.??...?1.??1?9?.6?..)!?..!!.)...? > 3H????.?...!)!.&?...?!? Check the baud rate of ttyS0 in /etc/inittab If you are booting with 9600, then you need to have something like: # Example how to put a getty on a serial line (for a terminal) # T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 --Chris ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/