[Soekris] GRUB terminal emulation?

[Jordan Share]

Chuck Yerkes wrote:

> 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.

It's definitely incompatibility between grub and the console emulation.  If 
you tell grub to only use serial, then it works as you'd expect.

I just tried using:
terminal console
(i.e. not using serial directly), to see if grub's console output would be ok 
without interference from it also sending directly to serial.  That does not work.

"terminal serial" is the only option that gives you recognizable output from grub.

Jordan