From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring•com>
To: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska•net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org, Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring•com>
Subject: Re: Serial Console on XServe and yaboot???
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:27:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030314112746.52828395.billfink@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030314072405.GE20925@plato.local.lan>
Hi Ethan,
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:29:01PM -0500, Bill Fink wrote:
> >
> > Thanks a bunch for the info! Using this method, with scca instead
> > of ttya, and a baud rate of 57600 (using a laptop), I was able to
> > verify this basically works. The initial menu that asks you what
> > you want to boot (Linux, MacOS 9, MacOS X, etc) still goes to the
> > screen (at least it does if you have a screen attached) but the
>
> yes this is because i had to write all my text directly to the
> framebuffer, apple takes all kinds of special efforts to prevent
> `archaic peecee text' from showing up on the screen... this problem
> should be fixed in yaboot 2.0
>
> i don't consider it too serious right now since if your doing serial
> console your probably not running any macos.
>
> you could probably fix this easily enough for your setup by altering
> the `.printf' definition in ofboot.
It's not a big deal since I only want to run Linux at the moment.
> > yaboot menu where you select the Linux kernel to boot does show
> > up on the serial port of the XServe, and this is what I'm most
> > interested in. Now if I can just figure out how to set the baud
> > rate of the serial console for OF to 38400 or less to make my
> > console server happy, I'd be in business. If nothing else I can
> > use the laptop approach which is at least a lot easier than toting
> > a big monitor around.
>
> hmm, not sure on that one.
I figured it out. I just set the OpenFirmware parameters input-device
and output-device to scca:38400 and it worked fine (except it put my
window into reverse video mode for some reason).
-Thanks again
-Bill
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-14 3:29 Serial Console on XServe and yaboot??? Bill Fink
2003-03-14 7:24 ` Ethan Benson
2003-03-14 16:27 ` Bill Fink [this message]
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2003-03-12 3:33 Bill Fink
2003-03-12 7:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-12 8:51 ` Brad Boyer
2003-03-12 13:19 ` Bill Fink
2003-03-12 13:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-14 3:17 ` Bill Fink
2003-03-12 8:38 ` Ethan Benson
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