Thank you! I had to create the /dev/ttyCPM0 and had to point /dev/console to it. Now the console is working fine!
Best Regards, Addison Baldwin On 12/16/05, Vitaly Bordug <vbordug at ru.mvista.com> wrote: > 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 >
