Re: serial console

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Subject: Re: serial console
From: Martin Habets <errandir_news@mph.eclipse.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 17:20:56 +0100
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On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:56:54PM +0800, KokHow Teh wrote:
>       When I pass "console=tts/0,115200n8" to the kernel, I don't get any
> console output until the login prompt which I set to 115200 in
> /etc/inittab.

Make sure you have the BOOTX_TEXT config option set.

>       This is what I end up without "console=" option passed to the kernel:
> 
> <snip>
> Mounted devfs on /dev
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k init 4k prep
> ..ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½.ï¿½...ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½.ï¿½ï¿½.ï¿½...ï¿½...ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½......ï¿½..ï¿½...ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½..ï¿½.ï¿½.ï¿½ï¿½.ï¿½ï¿½.....ï¿½ï¿½[42;124H.

If the init scripts don't set the tty speed it will probably default to
9600n8. Maybe adding an stty early on will help.

-- 
Martin

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