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
