On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 09:07:18PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:54:34PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > >> It tells me that those are TMS390Z50 CPUs in slot 0 and 2. Then that > >> "Power on self test (POST) is running ...." > >> However, then screen is slowly filled with random characters, some only > >> displayed as bold '?'. > >> Does anyone have an insight, what's going on and can help me to fix it? > > > > ISTR that the initial bootup messages are always at 9600 bps, but after > > that, the speed is configurable. Try setting your terminal to 19200 or > > 38400 bps, and see if that helps. > > You are great :-D > As you said, it starts with 9600bps and switches after POST to 19200bps. > Whoever at SUN thought that such a behaviour would make sense. > After all, it's the first serial terminal that I have seen :)
Means someone at one point set it to 19200. All suns that I have seen default to 9600. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/
