Hello,
On a computer with a real serial port do I mis some output.
It is 'real serial port' as opposed to virtual hardware.
The text that I mis is 'My IP address seems to be' and
the decreasing hexadecimal IP-adress staircase.
The banner and the copyright message are displayed.
pxelinux.cfg/default is fetched and its "SAY command" is shown.
Have a look at this <screenshot>
PXELINUX 3.83 pre6-2-g8e01231* Copyright (C) 1994-2009 H. Peter Anvin et al
About to boot Debian Installer
Loading di/linux..
Loading di/initrd.gz...ready.
</screenshot>
Being curious why only the banner is shown, I dived in core/pxelinux.asm.
Modifing the banner string was easy
and did prove that my modified pxelinux.0 was being run.
Then it did took me several hours of in loop of
edit-compile-client_reboot-dhcp-pxelinux_run
to find out that I was modifing death code.
With <patch>
--- a/core/pxelinux.asm
+++ b/core/pxelinux.asm
@@ -259,15 +259,6 @@ _start1:
%include "init.inc"
;
-; Tell the user we got this far
-;
- mov si,syslinux_banner
- call writestr_early
-
- mov si,copyright_str
- call writestr_early
-
-;
; Assume API version 2.1, in case we find the !PXE structure without
; finding the PXENV+ structure. This should really look at the Base
; Code ROM ID structure in have_pxe, but this is adequate for now --
</patch> I got the same output as in <screenshot/>
What is needed to get something like <patch>
--- a/core/pxelinux.asm
+++ b/core/pxelinux.asm
@@ -261,6 +261,9 @@ _start1:
;
; Tell the user we got this far
;
+ mov si,sfsg
+ call writestr_early
+
mov si,syslinux_banner
call writestr_early
@@ -2597,6 +2600,7 @@ tftpprefix_msg db 'TFTP prefix: ', 0
localboot_msg db 'Booting from local disk...', CR, LF, 0
trying_msg db 'Trying to load: ', 0
default_str db 'default', 0
+sfsg db 'So far, so good...', CR, LF, 0
syslinux_banner db CR, LF, 'PXELINUX ', VERSION_STR, '
', DATE_STR, ' ', 0
cfgprefix db 'pxelinux.cfg/' ; No final null!
cfgprefix_len equ ($-cfgprefix)
</patch> working?
Cheers
Geert Stappers
Geert Stappers <stappers at stappers.nl> writes:> On a computer with a real serial port do I mis some output. > The text that I mis is 'My IP address seems to be' and > the decreasing hexadecimal IP-adress staircase.Don't forget that the serial port settings are read from the config file, which is read exactly after printing the "staircase". So the staircase itself has no chance of being output over the serial line. -- Regards, Feri.
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 03:19:22PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:> On a computer with a real serial port do I mis some output. > It is 'real serial port' as opposed to virtual hardware. > The text that I mis is 'My IP address seems to be' and > the decreasing hexadecimal IP-adress staircase. > > The banner and the copyright message are displayed. > pxelinux.cfg/default is fetched and its "SAY command" is shown. > > Have a look at this <screenshot> > PXELINUX 3.83 pre6-2-g8e01231* Copyright (C) 1994-2009 H. Peter Anvin et al > About to boot Debian Installer > Loading di/linux.. > Loading di/initrd.gz...ready. > </screenshot> > > Being curious why only the banner is shown, I dived in core/pxelinux.asm. > > Modifing the banner string was easy > and did prove that my modified pxelinux.0 was being run. > > Then it did took me several hours of in loop of > edit-compile-client_reboot-dhcp-pxelinux_run > to find out that I was modifing death code. > > With <patch> > --- a/core/pxelinux.asm > +++ b/core/pxelinux.asm > @@ -259,15 +259,6 @@ _start1: > %include "init.inc" > > ; > -; Tell the user we got this far > -; > - mov si,syslinux_banner > - call writestr_early > - > - mov si,copyright_str > - call writestr_early > - > -; > ; Assume API version 2.1, in case we find the !PXE structure without > ; finding the PXENV+ structure. This should really look at the Base > ; Code ROM ID structure in have_pxe, but this is adequate for now -- > </patch> I got the same output as in <screenshot/>Actually the code above works, but the output goes only to the VGA console. Serial console output starts only after the config file has been found and the SERIAL command has been processed. You still see the banner and copyright string on the serial console, because the pc_serial function (in core/parseconfig.inc) explicitly outputs syslinux_banner and copyright_str to the serial port (but not to the VGA console, because write_serial_str is used directly). If you are trying to debug the code which runs before the config file is loaded, you could try to modify the PXELINUX startup code to set up serial port output (like pc_serial does) using hardcoded parameters. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/attachments/20090809/20062011/attachment.sig>