[Soekris] Linux boot help

Harald Kubota hkubota at gmx.net
Fri Nov 19 13:14:52 UTC 2004


jdanda at sunflower.com wrote:

> Loading bzImage..................................Loading 
> rootfs.gz............Ready.
>
>
> It just hangs after Ready.

The problem is that your console is not the serial port thus all console 
messages go to a (nonexisting) console (VGA adapter).
You need to enable serial console support in the kernel and something 
like "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8"
needs to be appended to your kernel load line.

Harald




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