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Over on the soekris-tech list, Jim Cromie wrote: [snip] > Im curious, did you update your bios, and if so, did it fix the > screen-spew ? [snip] > I requested a few features, which he's considering. > one of which is NOCONSOLE, which was intended to > be a work-around for the escape-sequences put in by the > video emulation. > > If the bios has fixed that problem, I should scratch that > off the request-list b4 he goes and implements it. > > But I dont have my box at hand to try upgrading myself cur...

...192.168.42.1:255.255.255.0:soekris:eth0 4. INITRD as separate label not 'needed' if 1 is done. 5. warn when kernel bootline is > 255 chars iirc - this is a kernel limit. would be nice to catch it rather than mysterious failures esp as IPAPPEND adds further stuff on end. 6. NOCONSOLE 1 option I often use pxelinux to boot my soekris box, which spews lots of Escape sequences to the serial line, and this makes my terminal emulator window unreadable. According to a post on soekris-list, iits a soekris bios issue, but it would be nice to have a work-around 8/11/04, attribute...

...attached makes it specific - ie same directory as your syslinux.conf. obviously, you might have better wording.. PS. Ive posted to soekris-list wrt whether the 1.26 bios fixes the serial & console escape-sequence spew. I havent heard back yet, but when I do, I'll let you know whether my NOCONSOLE request is obsoleted by it. fwiw, the spew happens w LILO too, so its not a pxelinux specific interaction. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: patch.readme.menu URL: <http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/attachments/2005010...