Re: not getting command prompt at the console

["Raseel Bhagat" <raseelbhagat@gmail.com>]

Hi Rajat,

On 2/22/07, Erik Mouw <mouw@nl.linux.org> 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 to the board and fire whatever
> > commands I want though. How do I bring the prompt to the serial
> > console?
>
> 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.
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