[uClibc]buildroot: mipsel getty on serial port

Dana Soward dragon at linuxboxen.org
Sat Mar 1 01:12:53 UTC 2003


if its not already there, try adding ::askfirst:-/bin/sh to inittab

Dana

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, David Wuertele wrote:

> I have a board that has two serial ports, one I use for the console
> (ttyS1) the other I use for kgdb (ttyS0).  There is no video on the
> board, so my only option for login prompt is ttyS1.  I would like to
> run a getty on the serial port, and I noticed the following line in
> buildroot's inittab:
> 
> # Put a getty on the serial port
> #ttyS0::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100
> 
> I tried uncommenting this and changing it to ttyS1, but I still don't
> get a prompt.
> 
> During boot, I have a startup script run 'mount' and 'ps' so that I
> know the kernel and busybox are working.  But after that script is
> done I see no more output on the console.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Dave
> 
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