From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.198]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6481688D6 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:17:54 +1100 (EST) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i27so774275wxd for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:17:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:17:52 +0000 From: Addison Baldwin To: Vitaly Bordug In-Reply-To: <43A31EE1.3030101@ru.mvista.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <43A31EE1.3030101@ru.mvista.com> Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Unable to open an initial console List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Thank you! I had to create the /dev/ttyCPM0 and had to point /dev/console to it. Now the console is working fine! Best Regards, Addison Baldwin On 12/16/05, Vitaly Bordug wrote: > Addison Baldwin wrote: > > I was sucessful to port U-Boot to our 8272 board. Now I'm experiencing > > a problem: > > > > Our Kernel hangs with the message that says it was trasnferring > > control to linux. A post morten analyzes indicated that it stopped at > > "Unable to open an initial console" in the memory sapce where console > > output should be out (in the sdram, like I had found somewhere in this > > list, how to do it). > > > > I have checked the bootargs values, it is ok: > > bootargs root=3D/dev/ram console=3DttyS0,115200 > > > Only for 2.4, 2.6 is different for this. > console=3DttyCPM0 should be there, and that device does have different ma= jor/minor comparing to ttyS0. > Note that the UART has to be enabled explicitly in kernel config, for mor= e info, search this list archives. > > > We also checked our "/dev" and there was a link to console, pointing > > ttyS0. Also, ttyS0 was there too. > > > > Does anyone have any idea how to fix it? > > _______________________________________________ > > Linuxppc-embedded mailing list > > Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org > > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded > > > > > > > -- > Sincerely, > Vitaly >