On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:30:11PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > I just tried to boot OSKit Mach with a serial console. It doesn't work > > anymore! Has anybody got it to work recently, or can reproduce this bug? > > Does anybody have two serial cables to debug this? (Else I have to buy > > another one). > > An overpriced cable only costs 256MB of SDRAM or so. :-> (Of course, if the > stores near you are like the one I went to in San Francisco, they won't > have a decent selection of serial cables and will tell you that "everything > you want uses USB now", and I dare you to try to explain serial console or > remote gdb to these people.)
Yeah, and the bother of installing an I/O extension card to have a place to plug the other end of the cable into... I just rememberd this dusty PDA (Agenda VR3) which can be used as a serial terminal, too. And it works! Maybe it's really just the trick to use COM1 for the console. Now it comes up all the way. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/ _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
