From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:27:46 -0500 From: Bill Fink To: Ethan Benson Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, Bill Fink Subject: Re: Serial Console on XServe and yaboot??? Message-Id: <20030314112746.52828395.billfink@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <20030314072405.GE20925@plato.local.lan> References: <20030313222901.79512cfc.billfink@mindspring.com> <20030314072405.GE20925@plato.local.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi Ethan, On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:29:01PM -0500, Bill Fink wrote: > > > > Thanks a bunch for the info! Using this method, with scca instead > > of ttya, and a baud rate of 57600 (using a laptop), I was able to > > verify this basically works. The initial menu that asks you what > > you want to boot (Linux, MacOS 9, MacOS X, etc) still goes to the > > screen (at least it does if you have a screen attached) but the > > yes this is because i had to write all my text directly to the > framebuffer, apple takes all kinds of special efforts to prevent > `archaic peecee text' from showing up on the screen... this problem > should be fixed in yaboot 2.0 > > i don't consider it too serious right now since if your doing serial > console your probably not running any macos. > > you could probably fix this easily enough for your setup by altering > the `.printf' definition in ofboot. It's not a big deal since I only want to run Linux at the moment. > > yaboot menu where you select the Linux kernel to boot does show > > up on the serial port of the XServe, and this is what I'm most > > interested in. Now if I can just figure out how to set the baud > > rate of the serial console for OF to 38400 or less to make my > > console server happy, I'd be in business. If nothing else I can > > use the laptop approach which is at least a lot easier than toting > > a big monitor around. > > hmm, not sure on that one. I figured it out. I just set the OpenFirmware parameters input-device and output-device to scca:38400 and it worked fine (except it put my window into reverse video mode for some reason). -Thanks again -Bill ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/