Hi

What are you running for a terminal? 

Most of these loaders assume that your terminal speaks ANSI escape codes.

Bob


On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:04 PM, Scott Newell wrote:

> At 09:35 PM 1/21/2010, Bob Camp wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> The strange looking stuff is likely the standard FreeBSD loader 
>> select screen. The version on 7.2 shows up fine for me. the one on 
>> 8.0 looks just like you describe.
> 
> Same output with 7.2.
> 
> Here's an example from my serial port logfile: "[6n[24;01H C[24;02H o[24;03H".
> 
> Once it gets past the BTX loader prompt, PuTTY just moves the cursor 
> back and forth (but the data above is in the log).  It might be 
> sending some text, but if it is the serial output is forcing the 
> cursor back and overwriting it with a space.  (My google searches 
> lead me to believe it's getting both the video and serial console 
> output at the same time.)
> 
> 
> Crap.  I do have an Alix with VGA output, so worst case I can do an 
> install there, recompile to fix the console, then do the 
> Soekris.  But that just feels so wrong--there *must* be a better way.
> 
> 
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> newell  N5TNL 
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