From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Jacob Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 21:04:08 +0000 Subject: Re: serial console Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org > Messages sent directly to the prom seem okay, i.e. at the'ok' prompt or via > prom_printf() calls. I tried various incantations of the serial= option to > noavail. This problem is only when linux is booted, if I shutdown the OS > the console comes back and I can interact with OBP. > > It seems that if I power cycle the machine the serial console will work, > but on subsequent reboots it does not. Has anyone else encountered this? > The behavior is the same whether I am booting a 2.2.x or 2.3.x kernel. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. define 'not work'? I've had the serial console just be 'strange' when running it in a screen session so I just type 'reset'.