Tiny6410 with command line

HI, all.
I'm starting to develop Tiny6410 board, and will use Linux as OS running.

For now, every time board starts. It'll start with Qtopia. 
And when I comment out the line calling Qtopia in init.d/rcS, there's
nothing shown for me after boot.

Can I config the board to start with Linux's command line ? How ?

And if I want board to runs my program on startup, how can I tell it? 
(think of it running my program, if I want to load new program to board.
How can I do? can I use hyperterminal with the board Connected to LAN
running my program that do nothing about connection?, because I use
wins7x64 so I don't know how to make USB works.)

Sorry about my bad english.
Thanks,
Theerapat.

It has been a long time but I think when I commented out that line on the
mini2440 distro that you ended up with a command prompt.

Are any message flashed on the screen saying things like, Starting this
service or that service?

Also, you probably want to hook up the RS232 cable and run minicom (115200,
8N1, no flow control) on your host computer to watch what happens when you
boot up.

Hi, davef.

Yes, all services before Qt is displayed as started.

But when all of them displayed, there is nothing so far.
I can't type or do anything with my board accept port new Linux on it.

It looks like waiting for something or some task running, didn't seem like
it's going to show me the command prompt.


So, network connection won't be able to work right?
Is there another way to connect my board and my PC, because I use laptop
and he doesn't have the RS232 port.


Thanks for reply,
Theerapat.

Then you need to buy a USB to serial adapter.  You will get a display of
everything that is happening during bootup and then hopefully an error
message.

Sorry, all my early mini2440 notes are not with me.  Tomorrow, I will have
access to it and can check.

Before you commented out that line did you manage to do a ts_calibrate on
the touchscreen? 

You could connect the mini to the ethernet and see if you can ping it from
your host (maybe 192.168.1.230).  Then try to telnet into it from a Linux
host computer.

Thanks for advice.

Yes, because I edited init.d/rcS with editor in Qtopia so I did
ts_calibrate on the touchscreen before. Is it the same point?

The problem is I can't access command prompt on my board, so I can't do
ping. So sad :(

You don't want to run ping on the ARM board, you want to do it from the
host computer.

If you can ping the 6410 then maybe the telnet server has started on the
6410 and then on the host you can telnet into the 6410.  Then you navigate
around the file system on the 6410.

This you can do while you wait for the USB to serial adapter to arrive!

So, how can I know my board's IP address to ping ?
Or we don't need an IP address ?

> You could connect the mini to the ethernet and see if you can ping it
> from your host (maybe 192.168.1.230).  Then try to telnet into it from
> a Linux host computer.

All the mini2440s came with the IP address of 192.168.1.230, I do not about
the Tiny 6410.  Try it and see.