On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:42:41PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 13/04/21 12:31 pm, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-04-12 at 13:48 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > > > > > > .... > > > > > > But all that's irrelevant if I can't get to the linux commandline, > > > because Syslinux is misbehaving. > > > > > > Does anyone know if it's inherent in Syslinux that it won't work > > > correctly with a 24-line serial terminal? > > [...] > > > > I think that syslinux is working through a BIOS-emulated display and > > keyboard controller, and is not aware that a serial terminal is beign > > used. The code for SeaBIOS's serial console support is here: > > <https://github.com/pcengines/seabios/blob/apu_support/src/sercon.c>. > > It presents an 80x25 (or 40x25) text display as there is no VGA BIOS > > mode number for 80x24. > > Ah - so while syslinux can talk to a serial console, it's not using that in > this case? Interesting, thanks. That could explain why I haven't seen this > on previous serial console installations (an old Soekris box). > > That might make it more difficult to solve in software, leaving more > documentation as the only answer.
Please express proposals. Regards Geert Stappers Voluntering for transforming update proposals into git commits. -- Silence is hard to parse