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

[Balázs Nagy]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 00:10 , Bent wrote:

> 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.
>
> Am I barking up the wrong tree?


I just thought it was worth a shot as I noticed that kind of boot  
problem with OpenBSD 4501 machines.  When all the speeds were not the  
same, boot would randomly hang.

You might be experiencing something different.  As Lustin has  
suggested, you might also want the change the flow control to none.

All the best,
Balazs