I had the same issue when I first installed earlier today. On my Soekris-style SBC, you can hit any key as soon as it powers up and then set the serial console rate to 19200.
Now the serial console and the bios are both at 19200... no more garbage :) -Rich On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Leif Madsen wrote: > On 9/7/06, Lonnie Abelbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have never had any problem using 19200 8N1 on my net4801's. >> >> 1) Do you have a long RS-232 cable that is maybe picking up noise at >> 19200 speed? > > Well, I have a USB to Serial cable, which then goes into an old (but > good shape) laplink cable using the two serial ends. I wouldn't say > its overly long... but I'm not sure the specs on serial cable length. > I'd say it's about 9ft total? > >> 2) What is your TTY terminal software and computer? Maybe the >> mismatch is there. I use a super-old Mac PowerBook with VersaTerm >> terminal software. > > Using an HP dv1000 running FC5 and minicom as the terminal app. It > just seems strange that everything is fine at 9600 until it gets to > grub, then if I change the emulation to 19200 once up to the boot > prompt everything goes back to being fine. Oh so very strange! :) > > _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
