Serial console

[Josh Boyer]

On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 10:06 +0900, 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 ?
> 
> Is there anything I need to do on the kernel config ?

Do you have a /dev/console device node in your initrd?  If not, that is
one of the reasons you could be seeing that problem.  Make
sure /dev/null is there too.

josh