[Soekris] GRUB terminal emulation?

Chuck Yerkes chuck+soekris at 2004.snew.com
Fri Aug 20 17:29:02 UTC 2004


Quoting Kevin P. Fleming (kpfleming at starnetworks.us):
> Peter Seebach wrote:
> 
> >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".
> 
> No, I don't think it's baud rate, because after the gibberish stops if I 

And yet we do.  I'd guess that if you change it, reboot, that the
gibberish phase will be clear and later you won't be able to type.
Different components (bios, boot and init) get their baud rates from
different places.

> type characters they are echoed back to me properly, and if I hit the ? 
> key I can see the bits and pieces of the help screens, they're just all 
> over everywhere.



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