Hi all, Is anyone familiar with the problem of the 15 character wide serial console?
<http://wiki.soekris.info/Installing_Debian_Linux_(4.0r1_Etch)> <http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2007-November/013353.html> Specifically, when booting syslinux from the network on a net5501, all output is wrapped in a console 15 characters wide, which makes it extremely hard to read. Grub doesn't have this problem, but produces so much output that it confuses crappy USB-serial converters and is even less usable as a result. It appears to me that if int 10h with ah=0fh is unimplemented, then a stub implementation that just returns 80 would do the trick. (Although why syslinux is calling a BIOS API to determine the width of the serial console is beyond me, so that might be the real bug). Any ideas? Cheers, Chris. -- Aptivate | http://www.aptivate.org | Phone: +44 1223 760887 The Humanitarian Centre, Fenner's, Gresham Road, Cambridge CB1 2ES Aptivate is a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales with company number 04980791. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
