On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:59:43PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Hm. Disconnecting the keyboard makes it play the complete startup > sound and display some information about using the serial port. With > the keyboard connected, only fraction of the startup sound is played > before it reboots.
Oh dear, that's a new one. :( Luckily, you are getting far enough that recovery via serial is definately possible. But I'd like to see the sreial boot log first. > Working on it. Do I need a crossover cable? Which pins needs to be > shorted? I'm trying to connect it to a 9-pin plug on my PC. Yes, plain null-modem will do. Pins 2&3 should be crossed, and pin 7 straight-through for the ground. Other pins needn't be connected. Be sure you have flow control disabled in your comm program. -R
