Re: How to use a serial console on Ultra 1?
Thank you for your reply. What I haven't found is instruction on what
software to use to actually make the connection. I could use an example,
like, open a terminal on the laptop, run minicom (?), set minicom to
vt100 emulation, "connect" to the com port, etc.
I would not be so noobie-like, if everything were working fine, but if
I'm trying to diagnose a problem, then I need to determine if something
is broken, rather than learning how to use a serial logon. Any
suggestions or links would be greatly appreciated.
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:54 +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:56:21PM -0500,
> John Zbesko <johnzbesko@alum.mit.edu> wrote
> a message of 13 lines which said:
>
> > How do I use a serial console and test if my Ultra is indeed working?
>
> My last Ultra 1 died one year ago but I have two Ultra 10 still
> working :-)
>
> In theory, the machine should switch automatically to the serial port,
> if it does not detect keyboard and screen. Did you remove them?
>
> If, after removal, the serial port is still not used, it may be
> because the machine was forced in not using it.
>
> To stop the boot, from the keyboard:
>
> STOP-A
>
> >From the Minicom terminal emulator:
>
> Ctrl-A F
>
> To reset the NVRAM to factory values:
>
> STOP-N
>
> http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html specially
> http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html#q_5_23 and later
>
>
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