[yocto] Unable to get serial console login prompt - PowerPC 440 Virtex 5 processor

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tired manually copying the static bash binary 8mb, over to the ramdisk root folder. The problem still manifests, if there is no other file other than the static bash file, it displays the prompt. If the core-minimal-console image exists, along with the static bash binary in the root location, it gives the kernel panic, as shown above.

I dont understand why it would boot when the rfs is just static bash
and not when you bundle it along with rest of file system and setting
init=/bin/bash you should get same results imo unless
there are some conflicts in the latter case where /bin/bash is not static

OK, another approach I could suggest is to use chroot. So boot
the system into a known root file system. Then untar the new root file
system under /opt or somewhere then chroot into it and try
to run any dynamically linked program and see if that works.