[Soekris] GRUB terminal emulation?

[Peter Seebach]

In message <4125745E.5050106 at starnetworks.us>, "Kevin P. Fleming" writes:
>I've got a silly newbie question... I just purchased two net4801-50 
>boards, using them with 256MB Lexar CF cards. I am building a 
>uClibc/busybox root filesystem (using the buildroot kit), and will be 
>running the latest 2.6 kernel. I can build my root filesystem, put it 
>onto the CF, install GRUB into the boot sector, all works fine (using 
>another system of course).
>
>I then move the CF card into the net4801, power it up, and let it boot. 
>I see the two normal GRUB loading messages (from stage1 and stage2), 
>then the screen clears and I get random gibberish. Typically this would 
>be because my terminal emulation doesn't match the output, but I've 
>tried every emulator I can find (on both Linux and Windows), all are set 
>for VT100 or ANSI and still no dice. I just can't get to the GRUB prompt 
>to tell it to load my kernel and continue booting.

Seems more likely it's a baud rate mismatch.  A lot of serial console things
are tied to 9600 by default, if your console is 19.2 for the combios console,
then you'd get "gibberish".

-s