Addison Baldwin wrote: > I was sucessful to port U-Boot to our 8272 board. Now I'm experiencing > a problem: > > Our Kernel hangs with the message that says it was trasnferring > control to linux. A post morten analyzes indicated that it stopped at > "Unable to open an initial console" in the memory sapce where console > output should be out (in the sdram, like I had found somewhere in this > list, how to do it). > > I have checked the bootargs values, it is ok: > bootargs root=/dev/ram console=ttyS0,115200 > Only for 2.4, 2.6 is different for this. console=ttyCPM0 should be there, and that device does have different major/minor comparing to ttyS0. Note that the UART has to be enabled explicitly in kernel config, for more info, search this list archives.
> We also checked our "/dev" and there was a link to console, pointing > ttyS0. Also, ttyS0 was there too. > > Does anyone have any idea how to fix it? > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-embedded mailing list > Linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded > > -- Sincerely, Vitaly
