Rahul, I'm not familiar with an ads powerpc 8260 board, however if your linux console is over a serial port, you will need to add an option to your linux kernel command line:
"console=/dev/ttyS0" or "console=/dev/ttyS1" I can see your passing nothing, due to: > Boot arguments: and > Kernel command line: Hope this helps! Paul White Bivio Networks, Inc. On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Rahul Dev wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am running linux 2.4.2 over ads powerpc (8260) board. > Since , there is no support of scsi controller over the board , i m > using ramdisk image. > > I m getting the following prints: > > Linux version 2.4.2 (rahuld at hpv2k-35) (gcc version 3.0.4) #1 > Fri Mar 7 15:30:25 IST 2003 > Boot arguments: > On node 0 totalpages: 4095 > zone(0): 4095 pages. > zone(1): 0 pages. > zone(2): 0 pages. > Kernel command line: > Warning: real time clock seems stuck! > Calibrating delay loop... 244.12 BogoMIPS > Memory: 13016k available (724k kernel code, 260k data, 40k init, 0k > highmem) > Dentry-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) > Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) > Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) > Inode-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) > POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 > Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 > Starting kswapd v1.8 > CPM UART driver version 0.01 > ttyS0 on SCC1 at 0x8000, BRG1 > ttyS1 on SCC2 at 0x8100, BRG2 > block: queued sectors max/low 8581kB/2860kB, 64 slots per queue > RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize > RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0 > RAMDISK: Loading 2048 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done. > Freeing initrd memory: 0k freed > Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with no serial options enabled > NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP > IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 512 bind 1024) > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. > setting up filesystem > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k init > > The problem is that i m not getting bash prompt. > Then i added one application in my ramdisk.image that prints some > message on "/dev/console" . > But i m not getting any prints . > Can anybody point out that where could the problem be?? > > thanx and regards, > -rd > > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
