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Re: Re: Problems with RedBoot on x86 generic pc...
- To: Mats Nordlund <Mats dot J dot Nordlund at telia dot se>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: Problems with RedBoot on x86 generic pc...
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 07:53:04 +0100
- Cc: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at theone dot dnsalias dot com>,ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <000401c13162$b4c7bef0$090110ac@TRENT> <3B8F3A1A.ACC9B7B8@telia.se>
Mats Nordlund wrote:
>
> Yes, the local keyboard/display input/output works fine. When a have a
> serial terminal connected, I can see the startup screen (the RedBoot
> prompt), but after that the serial terminal doesn't show the commands
> given on the local keyboard. It seems like the serial output works until
> the prompt, but not after. The serial input does not receive any
> commands sent from the terminal application. After bootup, I have tried
> to switch to the other serial output of the RedBoot machine, with no
> success.
Do you know that once RedBoot gets _any_ input on a channel it will "lock
on" to that channel to the exclusion of all others?
You may want to try using the `channel' command, e.g. "channel -1" to reset
it to looking on all channels.
Jifl
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