* On 2019 06 May 14:10 -0500, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 08:22:43AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I have a Freedombox Pioneer HSK (Olimex A20-Linuxino-LIME2) that I want > > to do some maintenance (move some system directory contents off the uSD > > to a SATA drive). When I issue 'telinit 1' the HDMI screen clears and I > > am left with a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner of the > > display. I presume that only the serial port is active as a display > > output at this point? If so, is there a way to make the HDMI port the > > default active display port? > > Hello, Hi Karsten. > I don't know what the U-Boot setup in the Freedombox images looks > like, but if you see U-Boot starting on the HDMI screen, you > could try to interrupt U-Boot's boot process by pressing any key > on the keyboard, so that you get a U-Boot commandline prompt, and > enter the the following two commands: > > setenv console "tty0" > run bootcmd Except that for some reason, it isn't seeing the keyboard at the uboot timeout prompt. I do recall that with my MICRO running the stock Debain Stretch installation that it does respond to the keyboard at that point. > Many U-Boot bootscripts (including the one installed by the > Debian flash-kernel package for the LIME2) pass the U-Boot > "console" variable to the kernel. If that is the case for the > Freedombox images, the aforementioned commands should make the > console on the HDMI port the primary console for the current > session. If that works for you and you want to make it a > permanent default, you can run the following commands at the > U-Boot prompt: > > setenv console "tty0" > saveenv With another distribution I figured out how to manually recompile /boot/boot.scr but I'm not sure where to make the change now so the next kernel upgrade doesn't replace my changes. That distribution did not have a kernel upgrade mechanism, so I switched to Stretch. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: http://www.n0nb.us GPG key: D55A8819 GitHub: N0NB
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