On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:57:22AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 02:24, Sven Luther wrote: > > > While I'm asking, does anyone know how to tell the Macintosh Open > > > Firmware monitor to set the terminal speed. I'm thinking that if > > > the Linux Kernel wants 19200, then it would be a good idea to be > > > talking to the Open Firmware at the same speed, so things don't get > > > lost in the switch-over. > > > > Best is to adapt the linux kernel serial log to the OF set value though. > > > Well... on the beige G3, I booted into Open Firmware with the > "ofonlyboot" floppy in the drive. The G3 comes up with console > input/output being keyboard/screen. From another Mac running MacOS-9, I > connected with MacKermit to the G3's modem port (which is normally > "/dev/ttyS0" under Linux) > > At the G3's console, I typed "boot console=ttyS0<return>". The floppy > drive made reading noises, and the "tuxMac" icon appeared on the G3's > screen. Nothing happened at this point on the Kermit serial port -- > there was no response when I type things at it over the serial port. > > After a while the floppy stopped making noises and a red "X" appeared > over the tuxMac icon. Still no messages on the serial port, but now it > at least will echo what I type at it. No response other than echos, > though. It seems that I'm not talking to a live kernel. > > Does any one have a clue what the red "X" means? > > It appears that the "console=ttyS0" option is being noticed (at least > that's how I interpret the fact that it switched from no-echo to echo at > the point where the red "X" appeared...) So I could put other boot-time > options there as well. Is there a "verbose" option I can try?
there should be, but i am not familiar with this. Look into Documentation directory of a kernel tree for details. BTW, while you are at the serial OF prompt, could you try booting : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-coff.initrd directly, it should work, and was made especially for this kind of case. Friendly, Sven Luther
