I have tried using another serial cable (as suggested by Wolfgang) but it made no difference, but I did not expect it to as I get all the messages from the bootroms OK.
I have have confirmed that I have (as suggested by Sylvian) set CONFIG_CMDLINE= "console=ttyS0" and have also tried "console=ttyS0, 115200" (as my serial port is set to 115200 on the icecube board) without any messages after arch:exit. Below is what I see when I try and boot Sylvians 2-6-10-rc2 kernel. => tftp 200000 Using FEC ETHERNET device TFTP from server 192.168.1.101; our IP address is 192.168.1.201 Filename 'uImage'. Load address: 0x200000 Loading: ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ############################################################# done Bytes transferred = 1305842 (13ecf2 hex) => bootm 200000 ## Booting image at 00200000 ... Image Name: Linux-2.6.10-rc2 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 1305778 Bytes = 1.2 MB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK id mach(): done MMU:enter MMU:hw init MMU:mapin MMU:setio MMU:exit setup_arch: enter setup_arch: bootmem ocp: exit arch: exit At this point all output to the serial port stops but the board boots and I can telnet to the IP address. It's not that important in the greater scheme of things, just very annoying :-( Below is a "printenv" from the icecube-uboot. baudrate=115200 ethact=FEC ETHERNET preboot=echo;echo AutoStarting. Press any key to abort ...;echo ethaddr=00:04:9F:00:12:60 bootdelay=5 hostname=icecube flashboot=root=/dev/mtdblock2 rw rootfs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.1.101:/work/ELDK-3.1/ppc_6xx bootfile=uImage nfsroot=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.1.101:/work/ELDK-3.1/ppc_6xx ip=ip=192.168.1.201:192.168.1.101:192.168.1.101:255.255.255.0:icecube::off bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.1.101:/work/ELDK-3.1/ppc_6xx ip=192.16 8.1.201:192.168.1.101:192.168.1.101:255.255.255.0:icecube::off filesize=b7d6e fileaddr=100000 netmask=255.255.255.0 ipaddr=192.168.1.201 serverip=192.168.1.101 bootcmd=bootm ff100000 stdin=serial stdout=serial stderr=serial Any ideas???? Linas Petras ------------ I know not with which weapons World War III will be faught, but World War IV will be faught with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein.