[Soekris] 5501 Mystery - to me - at boot time

[Iustin Pop]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:10:52AM +0200, Bent wrote:
> Hi Balazs
> 
> 2007/10/7, Balazs Nagy <bnagy at thenewpush.com>:
> > You need to have the serial speed the same in bios, boot loader and kernel.
> >
> 
> It is: 19200 b/sec. To be truthful, however, I cannot see why this
> could explain the phenomena . It should not care whether anything
> legible comes over the serial interface when booting, since it
> supposedly runs unattended.

>From your description, it could sound like the serial port is setup in
some sort of flow-control mode, that block output until some terminal
it's connected to it.

However, that sounds really strange, I've never seen grub setting up the
port like that.

Maybe the problem is something else... I'm normally running using
hiddenmenu - maybe try using that as displaying the menu requires a
terminal? Or use --dumb?

regards,
iustin