From: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru•mvista.com>
To: Addison Baldwin <addison.baldwin@gmail•com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Unable to open an initial console
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:09:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43A31EE1.3030101@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af313df20512161201u39280d30kdf1ace1c4569d50a@mail.gmail.com>
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?
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>
>
--
Sincerely,
Vitaly
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-16 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-16 20:01 Unable to open an initial console Addison Baldwin
2005-12-16 20:09 ` Vitaly Bordug [this message]
2005-12-19 12:17 ` Addison Baldwin
2005-12-17 5:23 ` Nigel Cunningham
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