On Mon, 2021-04-12 at 13:48 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 11/04/21 9:26 pm, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Richard Hector, le dim. 11 avril 2021 21:18:49 +1200, a ecrit: > > > On 11/04/21 9:10 pm, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > $ git grep -i "Boot console" . > > > > en/boot-installer/parameters.xml: <title>Boot console</title> > > > > po/[...] > > > > > > > > That's very most probably it. > > > > > > I think so, yes. But my problems started earlier than booting linux, at > > > the > > > SysLinux menu. > > > > See the section, it talks about kernel arguments, which are passed from > > the syslinux menu. See the section just before, "Boot Parameters". > > Yes. > > It's becoming clear that I asked/commented/complained about too many > things in one email :-) > > I got the hang of the boot parameters, though that section doesn't > mention removing the 'vga=xxx' section from the linux command line. I'm > not sure if that's important; I'll have to retest to confirm. > > But all that's irrelevant if I can't get to the linux commandline, > because Syslinux is misbehaving. > > Does anyone know if it's inherent in Syslinux that it won't work > correctly with a 24-line serial terminal? [...]
I think that syslinux is working through a BIOS-emulated display and keyboard controller, and is not aware that a serial terminal is beign used. The code for SeaBIOS's serial console support is here: <https://github.com/pcengines/seabios/blob/apu_support/src/sercon.c>. It presents an 80x25 (or 40x25) text display as there is no VGA BIOS mode number for 80x24. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The world is coming to an end. Please log off.
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