On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 08:17:49AM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I have a PC Engines routerboard that has no video card. In the past I've > successfully installed CentOS and Rocky Linux on this board using Minicom > and the serial console. > > A couple months ago I even managed to install Debian 13 Trixie on it using > the text mode installer in the serial console. Unfortunately I forgot to > write down the kernel options I used to boot this thing and now I can't seem > to remember them. > > Something like this: > > console=ttyUSB0,115200n8 edd=off
No idea what a "PC Engines routerboard" exactly is, but some Internet search at least throws images of things with a DB-9 connector. That at least suggests a "genuine" serial, not one over an USB adapter. In that case you might just try "ttyS0" instead of "ttyUSB0"... Cheers -- t
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