[Voyage-linux] Serial Console Tip for Soekris net4801

[Andrew Niemantsverdriet]

FYI same problem exists on the wrap. The default is not 9600 although I
can't remember what it is right now. You can change it on the wrap by
editing the tinyBIOS to match. Might be nice to have voyage default to
what the wrap uses from the factory. Same deal with the soekris although I
personally don't see it as that big of deal.

> 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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