[Soekris] Booting with grub without serial console

[Jan Ceuleers]

Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> If the serial port is not connected to a PC with a terminal emulator it
> hangs at boot time, I think just before grub tries to print the boot
> menu. I suspect that at that point HW flow control is on and grub (or
> the BIOS) waits for a CTS signal.

Enable conmute in the BIOS

http://wiki.soekris.info/Connecting_to_the_serial_console