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Re: Slightly OT...Kernel serial console

From: (Eric LaForest)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 08:57:01 -0400 (EDT)

>Perhaps not what you want to hear but if you have access to a standard ISA
>(not pc104) vidio card, you could make an adapter, the standard ISA
>slot and the pc104 pins are a 1 to 1 map.  I have even been known to
>directly wire wrap to the pc104 pins... not a pretty sight.  Several

Oh yick! :)

>companys sell these as well, but then there is cost and time.

>Did you enable apm in the kernel?  That can cause hangs at boot with
>some architectures.

Nope..no APM in the BIOS, none in the kernel..it would interfere with
RT-Linux.

>Last thoughts, is there a way (perhaps with a differnt OS like dos) to
>confirm that the disk on chip is being seen correcty? 

Tested with DOS, the DiskOnChip works fine....I have been able to get the
serial console to work and see the messages....it hangs at partition
check...I suspect the commercial driver is to blame.

>Please let us know when you figure it out,

That's all I've figured out so far...

>Greg
>

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