Hello list, I am trying to use the console to setup my machine. During boot I am able see the syslinux boot prompt on the serial console *and* the monitor, but I can not use the console keyboard. I can only use the keyboard that is connected on the machine. After the kernel is loaded, the console keyboard starts working, but, this does not help me much, since I still need to use the keyboard before the linux kernel is loaded. Does anybody have any ideea what might be wrong? Here is my isolinux.cfg file: serial 0 9600 prompt 1 timeout 0 display debian.txt f1 f1.txt f2 f2.txt f3 f3.txt f4 f4.txt f5 f5.txt f6 f6.txt f7 f7.txt f8 f8.txt f9 f9.txt f10 f10.txt default linux label linux kernel linux.bin append root=/dev/ram rw initrd=root.bin ramdisk_start=0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=16384 flavor=bf2.4 console=ttyS0,9600n8 I am using the syslinux package provided with Debian Linux 3.0r2 (woody) Thanks in advance for any help. Best regards, Floriola __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Floriola wrote:> During boot I am able see the syslinux boot prompt on > the serial console *and* the monitor, but I can not > use the console keyboard. I can only use the keyboard > that is connected on the machine. After the kernel is > loaded, the console keyboard starts working, but, this > does not help me much, since I still need to use the > keyboard before the linux kernel is loaded. Does > anybody have any ideea what might be wrong?If your BIOS (which controls the machine up until a boot loader -- isolinux, takes over) doesn't have an option to use a serial console, you are out of luck. Most don't. Steve Brown sbrown7 at umbc.edu
Hi, Stephen Brown <sbrown7 at umbc.edu> schrieb am 15.01.04 15:19:37:> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Floriola wrote: > > During boot I am able see the syslinux boot prompt on > > the serial console *and* the monitor, but I can not > > use the console keyboard. I can only use the keyboard > > that is connected on the machine. After the kernel is > > loaded, the console keyboard starts working, but, this > > does not help me much, since I still need to use the > > keyboard before the linux kernel is loaded. Does > > anybody have any ideea what might be wrong? > > If your BIOS (which controls the machine up until a boot loader -- > isolinux, takes over) doesn't have an option to use a serial console, > you are out of luck. Most don't.I think you got it wrong. syslinux should use a serial console if told to use it, regardless of any bios support. That you don't see any bios output on the serial line doesn't prevent syslinux from using this for its in/output. So I've looked over the config file and don't see any problems. What version is syslinux? Could you try the latest one? Regards, Josef ______________________________________________________________________________ Erdbeben im Iran: Zehntausende Kinder brauchen Hilfe. UNICEF hilft den Kindern - helfen Sie mit! https://www.unicef.de/spe/spe_03.php
Floriola wrote:> Hello list, > > I am trying to use the console to setup my machine. > > During boot I am able see the syslinux boot prompt on > the serial console *and* the monitor, but I can not > use the console keyboard. I can only use the keyboard > that is connected on the machine. After the kernel is > loaded, the console keyboard starts working, but, this > does not help me much, since I still need to use the > keyboard before the linux kernel is loaded. Does > anybody have any ideea what might be wrong? >Most likely your terminal program has flow control turned on, and since you didn't configure flow control in your configuration file, syslinux never enables it. -hpa