In message <1E354700654661418593A0D6B5A9D41008943F at mail.azisa.co.za> you wrote: > > I have returned to the original uart.c. Although it still kills my > serial port it has nothing to do with the unable to open initial > console. Will the original uart.c I still get logging in
Since your console _uses_ the serial port, this HAS something to do with each other. > uart.c is probably something that I will still have to look at, but it > is not the root cause of my original problem. Any more suggestions would > be appreciated since I feel I've hit the brick wall quite severely now. > Besides file permissions (which Im conviced are fine now) what else > could cause the kernel to not be able to open a console? Maybe you did not initialize one, or you put it on an unitialized / non-working port. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/