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14:10:29
iska
I just tried out Mezzano on the old PC
14:11:12
iska
hardware detection crashes it right after it gets into desktop
14:12:23
iska
safe mode works, and it's slow (would be better on my recent image, gonna burn it now)
16:59:47
iska
fitzsim: the mezzano gui shown the desktop with the readme open
16:59:56
iska
safe mode I mean no hardware detection
17:00:27
iska
also, my 24G image immediately crashes on the old PC
19:16:31
iska
fitzsim: so how do I listen on the COM port?
19:43:32
fitzsim
first connect a null modem, and confirm you get some output on boot
19:44:08
fitzsim
then you can try applying my serial console pull request and rebuilding
19:44:20
fitzsim
if the whole OS crashes then it may not output anything
19:44:37
fitzsim
but by default, even without my patch, Mezzano will try to output something to the serial port
19:44:47
fitzsim
the settings it uses are 8N1 38400
19:46:19
fitzsim
so if you can get Mezzano's default serial output, then a serial REPL may be possible
19:46:52
fitzsim
given that the VGA monitor shows the GUI though, I would expect you would see some serial output before that happens
19:49:23
fitzsim
the serial port initialization code is in Mezzano/supervisor/x86-64/platform.lisp:initialize-platform-early-console