Busybox init hangs: No shell prompt??

HarYash Bahadur haryash at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 05:33:01 UTC 2006


On 9/5/06, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> On Monday 04 September 2006 4:37 am, HarYash Bahadur wrote:
> > Hi Friends,
> >
> > I am trying to port Linux 2.6.11.1 on an ARM9 based platform. I am
> > through with the hardware specific changes in the kernel and have
> > reached a stage where the "sbin/init" process is invoked. I hope that
> > if init process runs fine I should be able to see the shell prompt on
> > my serial console. But this doesn't happen. The kernel just hangs !!
> >
> > How can I change my busybox/rootfs/device_table.txt/inittab .. etc ..
> > etc so that I am able to properly boot 2.6.11 on my board.
>
> http://busybox.net/FAQ.html#init

Hi, IRob,

 will try this "hello world" today. But I wud like to mention that I
do get messages from the Init_main function on my serial console. Does
it not prove that the serial driver is working fine?


>
> Rob
>
>
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