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

[toogley <toogley@mailbox.org>]

additionally, booting debian from an external usb stick as suggested 
here https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780493 also 
doesn't work. I can't achieve a serial connection and well the system 
even doesn't boot (i think at least - the status leds don't change)



On 02/11/2016 10:13 PM, toogley wrote:
> Also switching RX and TX doesn't make any difference.
>
> thanks btw. for the screen tip - its much simpler.
>
> On 02/11/2016 09:54 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > On 2016-02-11, toogley wrote:
> > > 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.
> > ...
> > > 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.
> >
> > I can't count the number of times I've accidentally switched Rx and Tx,
> > so simply switching them to be sure has worked for me often
> > enough. Working with many different boards, the order of which is which
> > is hard to keep straight...
> >
> >
> > > 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
> > >      - Bps 9600 BN1
> > >      - modem init and reset strings are already removed
> > > 6. only the red power lamp is on and minicom says 'offline'
> >
> > I'd also recommend trying screen:
> >
> >    screen /dev/ttyS0 115200
> >
> > Works with most of the boards I use, and doesn't require configuration.
> >
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > live well,
> >    vagrant