On 30 Aug, 2011, at 00:23, Erik Blomberg wrote: > It's been many years since I've used DOS so this might be wrong but I think > you need a CTTY comamnd in your > autoexec.bat file to get it to switch to the serial console. > > Something like CTTY COM1 should work if I remember correctly. >
:) yeah i know, thanks! currently my autoexec.bat looks like this: (now here's a phrase i thought i wouldn't ever use again) > REM borrowed from the top of freedos\fdauto.bat > @echo off > SET DEBUG=N > SET NLSPATH=A:\FREEDOS > set dircmd=/P /OGN /4 > set lang=EN > SET PATH=A:\FREEDOS;A:\DRIVER > > REM serial console redirect > MODE COM1:19200,N,8,1,P > CTTY COM1 i also tried 'CTTY AUX' :) the output i get is this: > > boot f0 > > Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082) > Copyright (C) 1997,1998,1999 Intel Corporation > VIA Rhine III Management Adapter v2.43 (2005/12/15) > > CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 00 24 CC C9 1C > CLIENT IP: 172.23.23.4 MASK: 255.255.255.240 DHCP IP: 172.23.23.2 > > MEMDISK 3.63 Debian-2008-07-15 Copyright 2001-2007 H. Peter Anvin > > e820: 0000000000000000 000000000009fc00 1 > e820: 000000000009fc00 0000000000000400 2 > e820: 00000000000f0000 0000000000010000 2 > e820: 0000000000100000 000000001ff00000 1 > e820: 00000000fff00000 0000000000100000 2 > Ramdisk at 0x1f490000, length 0x00b40000 > command line: nopassany=1 stack=2048 raw=1 initrd=freedos-feedface.img > BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk > MEMDISK: Image seems to have fractional end cylinder > Disk is hard disk 0, 11520 K, C/H/S = 2/236/36, EDD on > Using raw access to high memory > Total size needed = 2357 bytes, allocating 3K > Old dos memory at 0x9f800 (map says 0x9fc00), loading at 0x9ec00 > 1588: 0xffff 15E801: 0x3c00 0x1e49 > INT 13 08: Success, count = 1, BPT = 0000:0000 > old: int13 = f0002520 int15 = f000511e > new: int13 = 9ec0000a int15 = 9ec0037c > Loading boot sector... booting... > FreeDOS which leads me to assume that FreeDOS is actually booted successfully by memdisk, but doesn't quite have the right console settings… /f _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
