Unable to open an initial console

Addison Baldwin addison.baldwin at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 23:17:52 EST 2005


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 <vbordug at ru.mvista.com> 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=/dev/ram console=ttyS0,115200
> >
> Only for 2.4, 2.6 is different for this.
> console=ttyCPM0 should be there, and that device does have different major/minor comparing to ttyS0.
> Note that the UART has to be enabled explicitly in kernel config, for more 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?
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> >
>
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Vitaly
>



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