[yocto] Unable to get login prompt for Xilinx ML507 PowerPC440 target development board

[Gary Thomas]

On 2012-07-24 13:36, Elvis Dowson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Jul 24, 2012, at 11:15 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882 <B29882 at freescale.com <mailto:B29882 at freescale.com>> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson at gmail.com <mailto:elvis.dowson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>      I have progressed somewhat further with getting Yocto to build a
>>> kernel image and rootfilesystem for the Xilinx ML507 PowerPC440 target
>>> development board.
>>>
>>> For some reason, I'm unable to get a login prompt. The serial console device
>>> is ttyUL0. If someone could help me figure out what's going wrong, it would
>>> be great. I have checked /etc/securetty and it does contain an entry for
>>> ttyUL0.
>>
>> You don't use /etc/inittab to spawn consoles?
>>
> It is set as follows:
>
> 0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 115200 ttyUL0
>
> Best regards,

Did 'udev' run?  I didn't see it in your log.  Normally, udev
would be responsible for creating /dev/ttyUL0

What image are you trying to run?  e.g. core-image-minimal, etc?

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