On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 22:34:11 +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:

> I got the serial cable this evening so I plugued it on the mainboard.
> The thing is I get junk on the output (same as if I had run  `cat
> /bin/ls` for example) ; that is unreadable caracters. I tried hitting
> ENTER but it doesn't seem to act as if the console got CR/LF.
> 
> Anyone knows what this mean ?
> Is the serial cable not build correctly ?
> Do I use the wrong settings (I use 9600 8-N-1) ?

Strange.  The following is from powering up my USL-5P.  Serial cable
was made by a friend based on mizore wiki instructions.

$ cu -l /dev/dty10 -s 9600
Connected

SH IPL+g version 0.9, Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `w'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions; type `l' for details.

2002/09/09 Making.  2004/09/08 I-O DATA NSU Update.
266:133:33 on base clock 22.22MHz and SDRAM 4 burst. CF boot.

PCIC initialization done.
MASTER:48bit LBA mode non support
Disk drive detected: Hitachi ATA  6.0 Rev 1.0
LBA: 0003D200
DiskSize: 128188416Byte
PIO MODE1
Set Transfer Mode result: 51
> b
Set Transfer Mode result: 51
Initialize Device Parameters result: 50
IDLE result: 50

NetBSD MBR boot

NetBSD/landisk ffsv1 Primary Bootstrap

>> NetBSD/landisk Boot, Revision 1.0
>> (uwe@shravaka, Sat Aug 19 06:13:25 MSD 2006)
Press return to boot now, any other key for boot menu
booting hd0a:netbsd - starting in 0
type "?" or "help" for help.
>


SY, Uwe
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