From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.197]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 514C367E09 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:34:24 +1000 (EST) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i24so707534wra for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:34:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9b7ca657050729183410394f8d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 10:34:23 +0900 From: Daniel Ann To: Ricardo Scop In-Reply-To: <200507292227.45626.scop@digitel.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <9b7ca65705072918062249e41f@mail.gmail.com> <200507292227.45626.scop@digitel.com.br> Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Serial console Reply-To: Daniel Ann List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Looks like I have /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 Sep 26 2002 console 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4, 64 Jun 17 2004 ttyS0 I havent yet figured out how I should go about seeing if init is correctly accessing it tho. Let me take a look at busybox init part. BTW, any more reasons why this problem might exist ? On 7/30/05, Ricardo Scop wrote: > Hi Daniel, >=20 > On Friday 29 July 2005 22:06, Daniel Ann wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Just wondering if anyone could lend a hand with this problem I have > > with serial console. I'm trying to boot up my board (very similar to > > sandpoint using MPC8245) with kernel 2.6.12.3, and most of it is > > working but console will display up to, > > [snip] > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k init > > > > I've done series of printk in sys_execve() to see if /sbin/init is > > working, and found out it went thru the whole rcS file okay. Mind you, > > printk is successfully displaying the output on the console while I'm > > still not getting anything from the user processes. > > > > Having all the kernel boot up log on console means that I've done some > > part right. But why am I not getting anything from the user processes > > on the console screen ? > > > Please verify that you have a /dev/console in your rootfs, and that it's = being > correctly acessed by the init process. >=20 > HTH, >=20 > -- > Ricardo Scop. >=20 > \|/ > ___ -*- > (@ @)/|\ > / V \| R SCOP Consult. > /( )\ Linux-based communications > --^^---^^+------------------------------ > rscop@matrix.com.br > +55 51 999-36-777 > Porto Alegre, RS - BRazil >=20 >=20 --=20 Daniel