anthropology of linux: help needed

2007-02-22 Thread m a a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ac uk
Hello, This is a rather strange e-mail for these mailing lists, I know. I am a third year Social Anthropology student in the University of Durham doing my dissertation (thesis) on the Anthropology of GNU/Linux. I would really appreciate if you could help me out and offer some of your time to fill

Re: not getting command prompt at the console

2007-02-22 Thread Raseel Bhagat
Hi, On 2/22/07, Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also , assuming you are using a serial console , check your entries in > the inittab file . > It should look something like : > ttyS0::respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 115200 linux If the device is indeed called "ttyS0". Remember it's a MIPS boa

RE: not getting command prompt at the console

2007-02-22 Thread Ajay Singh \(ajaysi\)
> My root FS seems OK since the same root FS is working for the > same board for an ancient kernel (2.4.20) > See if this helps: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2005-03/msg00030.html > Any ideas, anyone? > > Thanks, > > Rajat > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with

Re: not getting command prompt at the console

2007-02-22 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:20:08PM +0530, Raseel Bhagat wrote: > On 2/22/07, Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Run a getty on the serial device (I suppose you're using a serial > >port). > >Could be that the serial driver changed or that you forgot to compile a > >driver for the serial device

Re: not getting command prompt at the console

2007-02-22 Thread Raseel Bhagat
Hi Rajat, On 2/22/07, Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:19:10PM +0530, Rajat Jain wrote: > Next, I expected to see a command prompt which never comes. At this > point if I debug, I find the processor executing the idle process. > > I am successfully hable to telnet

Re: not getting command prompt at the console

2007-02-22 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:19:10PM +0530, Rajat Jain wrote: > Hi All, > > I just finished porting linux kernel 2.6.15 to a MIPS based board. The > board now boots up beautifully ... and here is the console log: [...] > Next, I expected to see a command prompt which never comes. At this > point i

not getting command prompt at the console

2007-02-22 Thread Rajat Jain
Hi All, I just finished porting linux kernel 2.6.15 to a MIPS based board. The board now boots up beautifully ... and here is the console log: .. VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) Initializing Cr