On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 12:30 +0100, Angel L. Mateo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>       I have a few of dell poweredge 1750 and 2650 servers. I have all of
> them connected to a cyclades acs 48 through serial console so I have a
> serial login if I have problems on the servers.
> 
>       The problem I have is that while booting there are lots of garbage on
> the serial console, after the serial module is loaded (I guess). The
> output is like this:
> 
> [    1.954261] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a NS16550A
> [    1.960612] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> �������������������������������������������������������������������������������.
> 
>       console only displays readable messages when it reachs the login
> prompt.
> 
>       Has anybody have this problem before? Does anyono know how to fix it?
> 

Yes, I had the same issue.

I reported it to the kernel mailing list about a year ago.
The solution is to compile out the PnP serial console support:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/27/105

I think they removed the PnP serial console afterward (or it defaulted
to N), since I don't get the issue anymore in newer debian kernel.
-- 
Brice Figureau
My Blog: http://www.masterzen.fr/


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