serial console problems

[Alexander Amelkin]

Hello!

I already asked, but nobody answered my question.
 I'm having problems with the serial console when booting LinuxBIOS on
 a pcchips m787cl+ motherboard. The serial works for output (I can see
 what the box says) but doesn't for input (I can't login from the
 serial console). If I boot the same kernel with the same parameters
 (console=ttyS0,9600n8) using the original motherboard's BIOS (AMI), I
 don't have any problems at all.

Any suggestions?

With best regards,
Alexander  mailto:[e-mail]

[Ronald G. Minnich]

this is almost always an old version of init. We used to have this problem 
all the time. I'll try to find the patch we used to use -- you're the 
first person to report this in over a year.

It occurs with an older init and a newer kernel.

ron

[Steve Gehlbach]

Alexander Amelkin wrote:
> I already asked, but nobody answered my question.
>  I'm having problems with the serial console when booting LinuxBIOS on
>  a pcchips m787cl+ motherboard. The serial works for output (I can see
>  what the box says) but doesn't for input (I can't login from the
>  serial console). If I boot the same kernel with the same parameters
>  (console=ttyS0,9600n8) using the original motherboard's BIOS (AMI), I
>  don't have any problems at all.
>
> Any suggestions?

I assume you changed "option TTYS0_BAUD=38400" in 
/mainboard/pcchips/m787cl+  to 9600?

It is also possible it doesn't work, as I don't recall ever testing it. 
  I will try and get a chance to check it this week.  All I used was the 
vga display and the serial console just for status errors etc.

-Steve