RE: Consoles and GRUB

[Gregg C Levine]

(To those of you, including myself, who have seen the message already, I
apologize. I am resending the message block, with more information, for
why I need, or want, to do that, and something else with it.)
Hello from Gregg C Levine actually with Jedi Knight Computers
A question for those of you, who have gotten GRUB to work over, say a
serial terminal hookup. Besides the obvious, that of specifying it, on
the command line for the configuration script, can that same terminal
output, provide debugging data? Or be configured to do so? I am in the
process of designing an embedded device, it will operate headless, such
that it gets started up via a serial hookup, or even a Ethernet port.
And through that connection, it will supply the usual menu screen, or
just boot directly to its embedded operating system. For now, it will
display the menu screen, it will be booting a form of a DOS based
product, which is all I can say, right now. ( Or an embeddable version
of Linux! ) For more information please contact me off list. Now as to
what I have done. I have downloaded the entire clutch of version 0.90
software, and glommed the current stuff in CVS. When I issue the command
string to start the configuration script, I append "--enable serial".
Then do the rest of it, and create my disk set the usual way. But when I
boot the disk, I get this screen:
GRUB Loading Stage2......................
GRUB Loading Stage2......................
GRUB Loading Stage2......................
GRUB Loading Stage2......................
GRUB
And as all of you can see, it hangs there. But when I boot from a
regular disk set, to which I have added the default menu.lst file from
the /doc directory, it works. Should I have added to the configuration
sequence a port number? Or does that sequence select it? I shall also
study the info pages to see for myself. Oh, and once the correct one has
been set, to what should I set my terminal emulator for baud rate? Or
would that be the same from the boot loader's point of view?
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Gregg C Levine mailto:address@hidden
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf
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> Gregg C Levine
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 10:31 PM
> To: Bug-Grub
> Subject: Consoles and GRUB
> 
> Hello from Gregg C Levine actually with Jedi Knight Computers
> A question for those of you, who have gotten GRUB to work over, say a
> serial terminal hookup. Besides the obvious, that of specifying it, on
> the command line for the configuration script, can that same terminal
> output, provide debugging data? Or be configured to do so?
> -------------------
> Gregg C Levine mailto:address@hidden
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
> "Use the Force, Luke."  Obi-Wan Kenobi
> (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi (Perhaps
> one of the most powerful of all of the Jedi Knights))
> (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda
> (Perhaps the other one of the most powerful of all of the Jedi
Knights))
> And the favorite line by Anonymous "May the Force be with you."
> 
> 
> 
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