Hi: I have a Soekris net4801 which runs from a compact flash disk. It boots to the serial console. I've set everything to 9600 baud, 8 bit words, no parity, 1 stop bit.
When left unattended, it boots normally. If I try to enter anything at the boot> prompt, I see one character and then it hangs completely. Only a hard reset fixes it: > comBIOS ver. 1.28 20050529 Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Soekris Engineering. > > net4801 > > 0256 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode 266 Mhz > > Pri Mas SanDisk SDCFB-1024 LBA Xlt 993-32-63 1001 Mbyte > > Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > 0:00:0 1078 0001 06000000 0107 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000 > 0:06:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0000000 10 > 0:07:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0001000 10 > 0:08:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E301 A0002000 10 > 0:18:2 100B 0502 01018001 0005 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000 > 0:19:0 0E11 A0F8 0C031008 0117 0280 08 38 00 A0003000 00000000 11 > > 1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. > Using drive 0, partition 3. > Loading..... > probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 255M a20=on] > disk: hd0+ >>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 2.10 > switching console to com0 >>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 2.10 > > com0: 9600 baud > boot> b Obviously, this is bad because it means I won't be able to pass any kernel parameters should that become necessary. If I do nothing or hit enter, the system boots normally -- no greek, no garbage -- which would suggest it's not a baud rate problem. Has anybody encountered this before? Thanks, -Stephen-
