Hi George, if you are using the pre-built image perhaps you can test image with the Baud setting on a physical apu to verify that the baud setting is correct ?
from what i can tell with debian there are a few ways of setting the grub boot config and perhaps there is a step missing.. hope this helps On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 16:27, George <g.lis...@nodeunit.com> wrote: > > On 2020-06-10 4:29 p.m., Tom Smyth wrote: > > Hi George, > > a reboot on a serial console is probably due to the serial console speeds > > miss matching, between your > > console client and the console on the guest. > > > > make sure you are setting the console speed / parity, etc also > > > > this issue happens frequently also when booting the PC Engines board > where > > the bios runs at 115200 baud , N 8 1 > > and then the OpenBSD Console changes to 9600 N 8 1 during boot (defaults > on > > installxx.fs / installxx.img > > > > hope this helps > > Tom Smyth > > Thanks Tom! I agree I have seen this reboot behavior on apu's and a > soekris device(s), but I am setting the rate properly or so I believe > anyway. The trick with the install on APU's is to set the baud rate at > install time along with the console port: > > stty com0 19200 > set tty com0 > > Here though I have preinstalled and pre-build the OS and updated the > GRUB config to use the console to send boot and other messages > unfortunately apparently not really ... > > > > > > On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 21:01, George <g.lis...@nodeunit.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> I apologize if this maybe out of topic even though it is truly related > >> to VMM than Debian. > >> > >> I am trying to setup a VMM Debian based guest but I'm not able to get it > >> to work. I found some description on the web about which settings to > >> edit in grub.cfg to enable the serial console and created a VM with 10.3 > >> in qcow2 disk format in KVM. Now I am trying to start the same on > >> OpenBSD 6.7 but keep getting the connected message and then just > >> "Rebooting " after I hit some keyboard keys seems like baud rate issue > >> but not sure. > >> > >> After messing with it for a while now I am getting a new error: > >> > >> vmctl: could not open disk image(s) > >> > >> even thought the disk is there and readable to the user I have setup in > >> vm.conf in fact I have another VM with the same configuration and disk > >> with the same permissions and in the same location that works (it is > >> OpenBSD based). > >> > >> I would greatly appreciate it if someone has gone this path and can > >> share some config info with me. > >> > >> Cheers and thanks in advance, > >> > >> George > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.
