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From: George Georgalis <george@metrumrg.com>
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
Cc: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@netbsd.org>, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org,
	David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>,
	Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>, install-manager@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: install/34280: cannot boot install media via serial
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 16:25:47 -0400

 On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:46:05AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
 >On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:08:49AM +0200, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
 >>  I would also consistently use speed of
 >> 9600.
 >
 >I would do this too, as a quick check that everything works. If it does,
 >you could, as Manuel suggested, write bootblock params with installboot to 
 >set the real speed you want - and then turn console redirection in the BIOS
 >back to the same value.
 
 I found best results with minicom and target set for:
 hardware flow control off
 software flow control on
 
 The blade hardware won't work at all at 9600.
 Another amd64 does post bios and kernel checksum into serial at 9600.
 
 The blade hardware has 3 settings for console redirection, tried
 em all. off, bios post, after bios post. The latter two (at
 115200) give serial to checksum.
 
 Same results for the other amd64, only 2 settings for console
 redirection (on/off).  With redirection on I get same results at
 9600 and 115200, serial to checksum.
 
 I'm stuck in the water.
 
 When I find time, I may try PXE install with speed to 0, but
 I think I've been through all permutations with two different
 boards, and serial does not seem to work on amd64.
 
 // George
 
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