[yocto] poky: core-image-minimal cannot login

[Elvis Dowson]

Hi,

On Aug 13, 2012, at 9:12 PM, Elvis Dowson wrote:

> I've created a ramdisk with core-image-minimal for powerpc 440 soft-float, and find that I cannot login
> 
> Yocto (Built by Poky 7.0) 1.2+snapshot-20120812 (none) ttyS0                                                    
> 
> (none) login:
> 
> I type root, but it doesn't do anything.

I should have been a bit more explicit..

if I type root as the user name, it doesn't do anything, and gives me a login prompt once again. It doesn't prompt me to enter a password (which I read somewhere was root as well).

Elvis Dowson