The Qube2700 boot hangs because the old "prom" style console is unconditionally enabled. Drop the "prom" console code from the build. It would only be used if no "console=" line was supplied and in that case the current 8250 code defaults to using ttyS0 at 9600 anyway (assuming a port exists). -- Index: linux/arch/mips/cobalt/Makefile =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/mips/cobalt/Makefile 2003-11-13 14:30:45.000000000 +0000 +++ linux/arch/mips/cobalt/Makefile 2005-04-10 13:16:58.000000000 +0100 @@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ # Makefile for the Cobalt micro systems family specific parts of the kernel # -obj-y := irq.o int-handler.o reset.o setup.o promcon.o +obj-y := irq.o int-handler.o reset.o setup.o EXTRA_AFLAGS := $(CFLAGS)