Re: HELP: Bootldr 2.14.8

I want to apologize. First of all my response below may have seemed a
little harsh and I could have been a little less sarcastic. Secondly,
it has just been pointed out to me that the current bootloader
installation instructions don't make any reference to setting up the
terminal emulator. That's an interesting ommission since it's been in
the installation docs for months or even years. I hope that will be
addressed and fixed very soon. Anyway, I hope I didn't turn you off to
the community, everyone isn't as coarse as I can be sometimes.

Ken Causey

On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 14:48, Ken Causey wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 13:44, James A Webb wrote:
> > Hi guys.
> >
> > I wonder if you could help. I'm running bootldr 2.14.8 on a Compaq 3600 series (running famila 0.4) but cannot get any response from the serial console (ie. no response from the boot> prompt). I can see output but cannot seem to type any input commands.
> >
> > Any ideas on what's going wrong here? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > James Webb.
>
> This is I believe an FAQ that you can find answered in many places and
> is mentioned in every document where use of the bootloader through a
> serial port is discussed. Be absolutely sure that your terminal
> emulation software is set to 115200 8-N-1 and No flow control. That
> last point about flow control is what usually causes the problem you are
> seeing, please be sure that you have all flow control turned off, no
> software flow control, no hardware flow control.
>
> Also, please make use of the wonderful mailing lists provided by
> handhelds.org that allow us all to leverage the power of the community.
> See http://handhelds.org/email_lists.html.
>
> Ken Causey (nikos)
Received on Tue Apr 02 2002 - 18:16:38 EST