Wayne Gowcher wrote: > > I am trying to bring up a mips based board using the > serial console outputing to a serial terminal. > Everything seems to boot OK, I see the various printk > messages of the kernel booting right up until the > execve calls in init/main.c init(). > After this point the board stops printing to the > serial console, but if I hit return at the terminals > keyboard, the terminal's cursor moves down one line. > But I still have no command prompt. > > Up until now I have been successfully booting the > board with the 2.2.13 kernel using nfs as the file > system. The problem kernel is my attempt at porting > 2.4.0 test 9 to the same board, using the same nfs. > > I suspect I have a setup problem with the serial > configuration in the kernel ( not the filesystem since > 2.2.13 is OK ), maybe it's not selecting the right > terminal or not directing output correctly ? But I am > not sure how to fix it and would appreciate any help, > references to texts that would help me. I would suggest you first start by loading ash.static or some other statically compiled shell (boot with "init=/bin/bash or init=/bin/ash.static, depending on what shell you have) and then go from there. If even that doesn't work, try cross compiling a static hello world and load that as the init (something like "init=/bin/hello"). What does you /etc/inittab look like? Pete
