Hi All, I just finished porting linux kernel 2.6.15 to a MIPS based board. The board now boots up beautifully ... and here is the console log: ======================================== <snip> ...... VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) Initializing Cryptographic API io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered rtc: SRM (post-2000) epoch (2000) detected Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a ST16654 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048) TCP reno registered TCP bic registered Diplomat-IP FE device reset... Diplomat-IP FE init ok, Rx buffer=0x8038dba8, Tx buffer=0x803adba8. Warning: FE driver bd table wrong,old bd_id_r=0 new bd_id_r=15 IP-Config: Guessing netmask 255.255.255.0 IP-Config: Complete: device=eth0, addr=192.168.1.75, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=255.255.255.255, host=192.168.1.75, domain=, nis-domain=(none), bootserver=255.255.255.255, rootserver=192.168.1.76, rootpath= Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.1.76 Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.1.76 VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem). Freeing prom memory: 0kb freed Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5 =========================================== Next, I expected to see a command prompt which never comes. At this point if I debug, I find the processor executing the idle process. I am successfully hable to telnet to the board and fire whatever commands I want though. How do I bring the prompt to the serial console? My root FS seems OK since the same root FS is working for the same board for an ancient kernel (2.4.20) Any ideas, anyone? Thanks, Rajat - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs