Serial console

[Daniel Ann]

I too have /dev/null
0 crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 1, 3 Aug 31  2001 null

However, Im not using initrd. null, and console devices are in my RAMDISK tho.

On 7/30/05, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 


-- 
Daniel