On Jan 12 19:15:46, Markus Hennecke wrote: > If I remember correctly the alix bios use a baudrate different from 9600 > baud. Are you by chance connecting to the board with another baud rate? > If this is the case just restart the session with 9600 baud and you > should be able to boot the system. > > If you would like to use 19200 baud something like > > set tty com0 > stty com0 19200 > > in the file /etc/boot.conf will help you so that the baudrate is set > automatically by the bootloader.
On Jan 12 23:00:25, Rolf Sommerhalder wrote: > On Jan 12, 2008 10:44 PM, Limaunion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I finally got it booting. As suggested I upgraded the BIOS to > > release 0.99 and configured the device to work at 9k6bps. > > Now the problem is that it gets stuck just before having the login > > prompt, after printing the date and time, any idea ? > > I guess that in your /etc/ttys the line or tty00 does not read yet like: > tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt220 on secure The manual ( http://pcengines.ch/pdf/alix2.pdf ) says "Set terminal emulator to 38400 8N1" on page 9, so having 38440 in both /etc/boot.conf and /etc/ttys, and indeed using 38400 in minicom/tip/whatever should give you no problems. My ALIX2c3 works just right using 38400 - starting with the BIOS messages, the boot> prompt works, even the rotating / appears right. It's IMHO the 0.99 BIOS that made the difference for you. Jan
