Fwd: Re: bananaPro | debian jessie doesn't boot; trying to establish a serial connection

[toogley <toogley@mailbox.org>]

i forgot to reply to the list, so for correctness:

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Subject: Re: bananaPro | debian jessie doesn't boot; trying to establish 
a serial connection
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 01:15:25 +0100
From: toogley <toogley@mailbox.org>
To: Milan P. Stanic <mps@arvanta.net>

I use not a USB to serial adapter, just
https://nicegear.co.nz/obj/images/954_LRG.jpg, so i think /dev/ttyS0 is
correct in this case.



On 02/11/2016 11:02 PM, Milan P. Stanic wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-02-11 at 21:03, toogley wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > i have a Banana Pro which i want to boot a debian jessie from. I know HDMI
> > doesn't work, so I want to have a serial connection for configuring ssh.
> >
> >
> > 1. $ wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/firmware.BananaPro.img.gz
> > 2. $ wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/partition.img.gz
> > 3. $ zcat firmware.BananaPro.img.gz partition.img.gz > netinstall.img
> > 4. My Banana Pro has three pins in the corner of the LAN Port. I've
> > connected my
> >     Pins accoring that http://wiki.lemaker.org/File:USBpl2303.jpg picture
> > (black
> >     --> GND; white --> RX; Green --> TX; leaving the red one out) and plugged
> > a
> >     power adapter.
> > 5. i've set up my minicom like here
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Working_with_the_serial_console#Minicom
> >     - Serial Device to /dev/ttySzero
>                               ^^^^^^^^
> Are you using USB to serial adapter?
> It is usually /dev/ttyUSB0 (or /dev/ttyUSB1 if you have more interfaces
> connected to computer) and not /dev/ttyS0.
>
> >     - Bps 9600 BN1
> >     - modem init and reset strings are already removed
> > 6. only the red power lamp is on and minicom says 'offline'