On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:06:22PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > I don't know how this serial console stuff interacts with an OS when
> > it's pre-kludged right into the BIOS itself.  Probably the BIOS
> > pretends the serial port is like a screen.  
> 
> Right, which is why you see pxeboot output (our bootloader calls BIOS
> functions to do output) but not the kernel output.
> 
> I fell into the same trap a few days ago. 

Me too, and using pxeboot_ia32_com0.bin nor building a kernel with
console hardwired to com0 helped. Using the pxeboot_ia32_com0.bin from
1.6.2 fixed the problem.
It seems the current pxeboot_ia32_com0.bin has a problem with at last some
Soekris. The one on which I had the problem was a 4521.

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