[Voyage-linux] Serial Console Tip for Soekris net4801

[Joe.Kelly]

> although I personally don't see it as that big of deal.

I guess it's not a big deal. It was just irritating me a bit. :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Niemantsverdriet [mailto:andrew at pure-wireless.net] 
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 2:40 PM
> To: Joe.Kelly
> Cc: 'voyage-linux at list.voyage.hk'
> Subject: RE: [Voyage-linux] Serial Console Tip for Soekris net4801
> 
> 
> 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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