You might try disabling minicom's hardware and software flow control. Been there...
- Dave Stefano Bodini wrote: > Hi all ... just my little testimonial about the problem. > Well, Linux and the little board were always working. > The freeze actually was minicom on the host, used to "speak" to the console > !!! > I don't know why minicom freeze after 1 minute but sure I will not use it > anymore ! > > So Linux is working well on the board. > > Now I have to solve the problem to have the kernel running if compiled with > the gdbserver option enabled. > > In order to try to debug something I enabled the KDGB in the kernel > (following the instructions on the MontaVista documentation). > > I recompiled the kernel, no errors .. but when I try to load and start it : > > [Go 00400000] > loaded at: 00410000 004A81F4 > relocated to: 00400000 004981F4 > board data at: 00495128 00495144 > relocated to: 004052C4 004052E0 > zimage at: 00405960 004945AA > avail ram: 00499000 01000000 > > Linux/PPC load: root=/dev/nfs rw ip=auto > Uncompressing Linux...done. > Now booting the kernel > > That's it. > Stops. No warning, no errors .. just stops. > I'm sure this is not a minicom problem this time ... any ideas ? > > Many many thanks in advance > > C'ya > Steve > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/