From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 21 14:36:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7352B15570 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:36:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p02-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.131]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id HAA13974; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 07:36:24 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3860003A.548F8343@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 07:33:30 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Hawkins Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Justin Hawkins wrote: > > I think (I am not positive on this) that if the boot loader talks to a > modem in command mode with echo on, it gets confused and won't boot any > further. Is this a known problem? I'd say this is an expected result, not a known problem. It is doing exactly what it is being told to (gibberish). Junk in, junk out. :-) > Is there enough room in there for some code, which checks for this? IE if > the first line output to the serial device == the first input (some > version string probably) then it just ignores it and does the default > action? Just configure it correctly. Don't tell it to talk to a serial device that will be sending it gibberish. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message