On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 07:24:17PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > When I connect to my physical device using the Keyspan USA-19H > serial-to-USB converter, I can watch the system boot, but Shepherd never > reports that the 'term-ttyS0' service has started, and I never see the > MOTD or login prompt. > > Any advice or debugging ideas?
Good news, it works! My method of testing was no good. I just successfully booted and logged in using attached diff on top of the agetty-service patch.
diff --git a/gnu/system/grub.scm b/gnu/system/grub.scm
index b18b8be6d..d94b1a266 100644
--- a/gnu/system/grub.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/grub.scm
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ system string---e.g., \"x86_64-linux\"."
insmod efi_uga
fi
- terminal_output gfxterm
+ terminal_output console
"
""))
diff --git a/gnu/system/install.scm b/gnu/system/install.scm
index 3ec343570..55020b147 100644
--- a/gnu/system/install.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/install.scm
@@ -275,6 +275,11 @@ You have been warned. Thanks for being so brave.
(tty "tty1")
(auto-login "root")))
+ (agetty-service (agetty-configuration
+ (extra "-i")
+ (tty "ttyS0")
+ (baud-rate "115200,38400,9600")))
+
(login-service (login-configuration
(motd motd)))
@@ -340,6 +345,9 @@ Use Alt-F2 for documentation.
(host-name "gnu")
(timezone "Europe/Paris")
(locale "en_US.utf8")
+ (kernel linux-libre-4.1)
+ (kernel-arguments
+ '("console=ttyS0,115200n8 gfxpayload=text
earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200"))
(bootloader (grub-configuration
(device "/dev/sda")))
(file-systems
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