Re: debian lenny serial console garbage with a cyclades

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Angel L. Mateo wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a few dell poweredge servers (with debian lenny) connected
> through a serial port with a cyclades console server.
> 
> I can log in into the cyclades and connect to one of this server. Then,
> I can see the boot of the server and so on.
> 
> The problem I have is that during the boot, while loading drivers, when
> it loads serial driver, I get a lot of garbage and console doesn't work
> until login (that is, I can't see messages displays by init.d scripts).
> When login is run, it works again without any problem.
> 
> The garbage I get is:
> 
> [    2.982482] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ
> sharingd
> [    2.991704] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a NS16550A
> [    2.998232] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
>
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> Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 felis116 ttyS0
> 
> felis116 login:
> 
> Then, I can't see anything until login is reached.
> 
> The cyclades configuration for this port is (I configured it as a
> Console (Telnet) port):
> 
> s26.tty       ttyS26
> s26.alias felis116
> s26.issue \r\n     Welcome to Console Server Management Server %h port S
> %p \n\r\n
> s26.speed 115200
> s26.datasize 8
> s26.stopbits 1
> s26.parity none
> s26.flow none
> s26.dcd 0
> 
> any idea?
> 

What's your kernel line on boot?

I have this one

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.2eko2 ro console=0,115200

regards