[ts-7000] Newbie needs help -- booting?

["Mikell Taylor" <>]

Hey folks,

 

I'm very much a newbie to the 7250 and, more importantly, to using HyperTerminal in Windows to talk to it. I'm just trying right now to boot it, and I've got it and the "Getting started with ARM-Linux" guide next to me right now. The 7250 is hooked up to as correct a HyperTerminal setup as I can make, and it indeed turning on and booting, however, three things are happening:

 

1) I can't get it to display the entire boot sequence in my terminal. Sometimes I get entire lines of text about what it's doing, like bringing up the eth0 interface, or sometimes I get random characters that I imagine are the first character in the missing lines of text. Often, it's just a blank line space.

 

2) It never actually clearly displays a login or bash prompt, which gives me little chance to log in.

 

3) Once or twice I've thought it has displayed what I thought was a prompt, so I tried to log in as root as indicated in the quick start guide, but it does not display any of my input text in the terminal and even if i type in "root" and hit enter, it just sits there -- though the cursor does stop blinking for a few seconds, meaning that my input is going *somewhere*.

 

I gave it a shot searching through the archives, but it didn't look like this was dealt with. Perhaps this is too newbie a question even for you all.

 

Any help would be very, very much appreciated.

 

Thanks!

~Mikell

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