Re: Timeout broken with serial port

2011-09-05 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 5 September 2011 22:51, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: > Hi, > > I think it is not GRUB related problem, more probably there is some HW > problem on Your serial port. Try to check idle voltage on RxD pin of > serial port (best with oscilloscope... :-) ). Or You can have some > unwanted "leakage" between p

Re: Timeout broken with serial port

2011-09-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 09:40:42PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > I did not have the cable connected at all at the other end. Connecting > it to my notebook resolves the problem. > > Still it is definitely a bug in Grub that it interprets noise as keypresses. > > Is there not DTR line? > > If e

Re: Timeout broken with serial port

2011-09-05 Thread Aleš Nesrsta
Hi, I think it is not GRUB related problem, more probably there is some HW problem on Your serial port. Try to check idle voltage on RxD pin of serial port (best with oscilloscope... :-) ). Or You can have some unwanted "leakage" between pins of connector or wires in cable (check resistance betwee

Re: Timeout broken with serial port

2011-09-05 Thread Michal Suchanek
2011/8/24 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > On 24.08.2011 11:16, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I was experiencing a mysterious error with grub. It would not boot >> with timeout set. >> >> It turns out that setting serial IO disables timeout. > Check your contacts. Bad contacts are