On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Javier Vasquez
<j.e.vasque...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Finally I got the HW setup, but I'm not capturing anything, :-(
>
> See, I had to acquire a serial to usb cable adpater, given the laptop
> with serial interface no longer works.  It's kind of under a short or
> something, ever since I tried to hook the serial ports.  It just
> doesn't start anymore...
>
> Any ways, I got the serial to usb cable, and the male to female
> adapter (2 female interfaces), and hooked everything.
>
> As root on the 2nd computer:
>
> # stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 9600 -echo
> # cat /dev/ttyUSB0 > ttyUSB0.txt
>
> But it's not capturing a thing (tail -f ttyUSB0.txt doesn't show a thing).
>
> On the mini-pc monitor, I see a lot of debug messages printed on
> screen.  Would it be that the "serial" stuff on the grub side is not
> working either?
>
> I do have in grub.cfg:
>
> serial
> terminal_output console serial
> debug=all
> insmod ohci
> insmod ehci
> ls
>
> Anything missing?


I didn't get anything captured, sorry...  But with the serial setup,
grub seems to freeze on:

disk/pata.c:274:  status=0x50, error=0x0, sectors=0x0
kern/disk.c:326:  Closing `ata0'.

So I didn't even got the menu afterwords...

Thanks,

Javier.

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