From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:30:15 -0400 From: Martin Hicks To: Aman Cc: linuxppc embedded Subject: Re: Serial Console Login Fails Message-ID: <20030423123015.GI553@bork.org> References: <001301c3093d$ad9c69f0$370da8c0@aman> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <001301c3093d$ad9c69f0$370da8c0@aman> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 07:41:40AM +0530, Aman wrote: > > Hi All > > I am using IBM PPC 440 processor on custom board , which has no network > support. I am using Monta Vista Linux with ramdisk enabled. In the ramdisk , > I have very less files. Since there is no network on the board , I am trying > to enable the serial console login. To achieve this, I disabled serial > console logging by saying "console=NULL " in the cmdline and in the > /etc/inittab file added this line If the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE then you can do "console=ttyS0", which will give you a 9600bps 8n1 serial console to see the kernel boot messages. > "T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100" > Bcos of which during the linux bootup , there wont be console message on the > screen , after some time , there is a login prompt > login: > If I try login then it waits for some seconds and then display the same i.e > login: You don't have "ttyS0" in /etc/securetty mh -- Martin Hicks || mort@bork.org || PGP/GnuPG: 0x4C7F2BEE plato up 5 days, 21:20, 12 users, load average: 0.49, 0.50, 0.46 Beer: So much more than just a breakfast drink. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/