[Voyage-linux] Serial Console Tip for Soekris net4801

[Joe.Kelly]

Doh! My bad. We also changed "9600" to "19200" in /etc/inittab. So you have
to make the 9600-to-19200 change in both /etc/inittab and
/etc/lilo.conf.voyage. Hope that helps!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe.Kelly 
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 1:09 PM
> To: 'voyage-linux at list.voyage.hk'
> Subject: [Voyage-linux] Serial Console Tip for Soekris net4801 
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if I should be posting this here, or in the 
> wiki, or both.
> Anyway, here's a tip for people that have a Soekris net4801 
> and want to
> monitor the boot process over a serial connection without 
> getting garbage
> characters.
> 
> Last week I installed voyage-0.2pre2 on a Soekris net4801. 
> When I monitored
> the boot process over a serial connection using 9600-N-8-1 for the
> connection settings (as recommended in the Voyage readme 
> file), I saw only
> garbage characters BEFORE LILO took over. So, I looked in the 
> Soekris manual
> and it told me to use 19200-N-8-1. However, when I tried 
> those settings,
> this time I saw garbage characters AFTER LILO took over.
> 
> The problem is that the Soekris BIOS and Voyage Linux should 
> both use the
> same settings. I found two ways to do this:
> 1) Use the Soekris monitor's "set" command, OR
> 2) Change the settings in /etc/lilo.conf.voyage
> 
> I chose to use method 2 (Why? I don't know. Method 1 should 
> work fine too).
> Specifically, I replaced all instances of "9600n8" with 
> "19200n8" in the
> file /etc/lilo.conf.voyage.
> 
> This time when I booted, I got proper output, with no garbage 
> characters,
> from both the BIOS and Voyage Linux. The only minor glitch 
> (which I can live
> with) was that there was one line right when LILO started where the
> characters were double printed. The line was:
> LILLOO bboooott:: LLooaaddiinngg lliinnuuxx
> 
> Anyway, I thought I would share this tip.
> 
> Cheers,
> Joe
> A.k.a cyboc
> 
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