[Soekris] ConMute option in the 4801 bios?

[Chuck Yerkes]

Quoting Jordan Share (jshare at krotus.com):
> Jordan Share wrote:

> >My fervent desire is that it will allow me to turn off the video card 
> >emulation

There IS NO VIDEO CARD.  There is no emulation of a video card.
This is unix in the classic sense - before people PUT video cards
in their unix boxes.   The video stuff is a hack onto unix in that
the video/keyboard is just seen as a (very fast) terminal.
Soekris just doesn't do this.

>> whatnot, since I'm pretty sure that's what causes pxelinux to 
> >spray garbage to the serial port.

> Just to clarify, I do have the speed set properly, etc. on the serial 
> port.  I don't have flakey hardware, the serial port works find as a 
> terminal after the OS loads (and in the BIOS itself).  I have manually 
> set the speed to 9600 on the BIOS, and am using that speed in the 
> pxelinux config file, and for the kernel console, and for getty.  I'm 
> just getting odd effects when the bootloader runs.
> 
> I believe this is because it is sending its data to both the serial 
> port, and also the "console" (by "console" I mean what would normally be 

Yes.  You don't want getty running on whatever serial0 is for your
OS.  You want getty running on /dev/console (which happens to
use serial0).

2 getty's on one port gives interesting (yet not so useful) results.