Re: Problems installing Debian on SheevaPlug
I believe that's correct - 8-bit, no parity. Unfortunately I tried
this and I'm still having the same problem.
On 28 August 2010 08:36, Holland, John <John.Holland@cellent-fs.de> wrote:
> On 28.08.2010, at 07:50, Shiva Bhattacharjee <shivajee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Make sure to use
>
> console=ttyS0,115200n8
>
> That says to parse in utf8, as far as i can tell
>
>
> I believe 115200n8 means 115200/bs, 8 bit word with no parity and 1 stop
> bit.
>
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Colin Fleming <colin.mailinglist@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been trying to install Debian on my SheevaPlug following Martin
>> Michlmayr's guide. I'm having a problem that a few people seem to have
>> had recently, see:
>> http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=1788. As described
>> in that post, I can do everything in uboot as described in the
>> tutorial, but immediately after booting the kernel I only get garbage
>> output on the screen. Mine appears slightly less corrupted than in the
>> forum, I can see that it's an installer because the window outlines,
>> buttons, widgets and whatnot are visible, they're just illegible.
>>
>> Curiously, if I ditch my screen session and reconnect, the current
>> screen is correct (it's blank, but moving the cursor between the
>> widgets causes them to be correctly redrawn) until going to the next
>> page, at which time it corrupts again. I suspect this to be some sort
>> of terminal setting, but I have no idea what it might be.
>>
>> I'm on a Mac, creating the screen session using screen
>> /dev/cu.usbserial-FTT39QOIB 115200. I'm using the installer images
>> from:
>>
>>
>> http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/daily/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/sheevaplug/
>>
>> dated August 27th.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Colin
>>
>>
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