[Buildroot] No response after "Freeing init memory"

[Daniel Nyström]

2011/2/21 Charles Krinke <charles.krinke at gmail.com>:
> Dear Zdenek:
>
> Usually when the terminal is quiet (no characters) after printing "Freeing
> init memory", it means the init process and its associated /etc/inittab is
> not quite setup completely.
>
> So, in looking at this, I would look at your definitions of ttyS0, the
> "getty" in /etc/inittab and maybe enable generic console support in
> buildroot on ttyS0.

One way to ensure a working console (since the console= paramters in
cmdline seems to work) is to add the following line into your
/etc/inittab:

::respawn:-/bin/sh

That will open up /bin/sh directly on the same console already in use
by the kernel.