Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 07:33:30 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Justin Hawkins <justin@tardis.mx.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem Message-ID: <3860003A.548F8343@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912201953090.499-100000@tardis.mx.com.au>
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Justin Hawkins wrote: > > I think (I am not positive on this) that if the boot loader talks to a > modem in command mode with echo on, it gets confused and won't boot any > further. Is this a known problem? I'd say this is an expected result, not a known problem. It is doing exactly what it is being told to (gibberish). Junk in, junk out. :-) > Is there enough room in there for some code, which checks for this? IE if > the first line output to the serial device == the first input (some > version string probably) then it just ignores it and does the default > action? Just configure it correctly. Don't tell it to talk to a serial device that will be sending it gibberish. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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