> > >The Ampro firmware should have a serial boot console if you do the >right magic. On the 486's it was shorting some pins at boot on a >serial port. Then you can see the BIOS working Still is...(pin 4 and 8 of COM1)...but this will only work for BIOS screen display calls...which Linux does not use. Works great for DOS though. Too bad they use a wierd screen cursor movement protocol...minicom or seyon do not support it so unless I use their own DOS app...it's command line to the end. BTW, thanks to all...I managed to futz around with Miquel van Smoorenburg(sp?)'s sercon patch and got the kernel boot messages to appear on a serial port. >Also, isn't the DiskOnChip2000 removable? Nope..it's a HW/FW compatible setup witha Toshiba chip SMT to the board. > Thad Starner > Future Computing Environments > Georgia Tech -- Eric LaForest Nascent Linux Borg -www.ncf.carleton.ca/~di458- #define Hacker !(Cracker) //FYI: http://sagan.earthspace.net/~esr/ Breaking into computers does not make one a hacker, for the same reasons that hotwiring cars does not make one a mechanic... paraphr. from ESR -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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