Newbie and linux on virtex-II ppc

[Grant Likely]

On 9/3/07, schardt <g.schardt at fz-juelich.de> wrote:
> Hi Grant,
>
> i added the devices, but stil no tty access
> i have no vga-card or something to use, i'm listening on one serial
> port. i think i must forward the tty to ttyUL0 or something like that ????

You should check that /etc/inittab is using the correct device.

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Cheers,
g.
>
> Georg
>
>
> Grant Likely wrote:
> > On 8/29/07, schardt <g.schardt at fz-juelich.de> wrote:
> >
> >> me again :)
> >>
> >> i added a /dev/ttyUL0 (mknod ttyUL0 c 204 187) device and and a console
> >> link to it.
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, you don't want a symlink, you want a console device node instead:
> >
> > mknod /dev/tty 5 0
> > mknod /dev/console 5 1
> >
> >
> >> no warning anymore, but i think i'm listen on the "wrong" console ??? i
> >> see bootmessages
> >> and an errormessage from init ("init: can't open /dev/null: no such
> >> device or directory")
> >>
> >
> > I would say you need to add a /dev/null device node, or fix it's
> > permissions.  :-)
> >
> > mknod /dev/null 1 3
> >
> >
> >> but the messages from init.d/rcS did not appear
> >>
> >> this is my inittab (from klingauf mkrootfs):
> >>
> >> ::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
> >> ::askfirst:-/bin/sh
> >> ::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/reboot
> >> ::shutdown:/sbin/swapoff -a
> >> ::shutdown:/bin/umount -a -r
> >> ::restart:/sbin/init
> >> ::respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tts/0
> >>
> >> Georg
> >>
> >> schardt wrote:
> >>
> >>> Step by step i becomes running :)
> >>>
> >>> kernel is booting, root-fs is mounting on systemace, busybox compiled
> >>> and rootfs installed (i used klingauf's mkrootfs)
> >>>
> >>> but now it says:
> >>> [    2.964978] Freeing unused kernel memory: 92k init
> >>> [    3.081332] Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> >>> [    3.306406] request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-4c46
> >>> [    3.375612] request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-4c46
> >>> [    3.446800] request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-4c46
> >>>
> >>> and i don't know what this is :(
> >>>
> >>> Can give me a hint, where to look ?
> >>>
> >>> thx
> >>> Georg
> >>>
> >>> Grant Likely wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On 8/28/07, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 8/28/07, schardt <g.schardt at fz-juelich.de> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Okay, im really blind i think, so i started again :
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - 2.6.22 kernel from kernel.org
> >>>>>> - cp /arch/ppc/configs/ml300_defconfig .config
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>> BTW, "make ml300_defconfig" does this for you.
> >>>>
> >>>> g.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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