Serial console

[Daniel Ann]

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 <scop at digitel.com.br> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> 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.
> 
> HTH,
> 
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Daniel