[syslinux] problems with isolinux over serial console

[Marc Pascual]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:18 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> On 12/05/2012 04:18 PM, Marc Pascual wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm missing something in my isolinux.cfg configuration but I'm not quite
>> sure what it is. menu.c32 displays properly over video console, but on the
>> serial connection, the first letter of the labels are duplicated, and the
>> margin is pushed off towards the right:
>>
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/59666947/isolinux.jpg
>>
>
> What terminal emulator are you using?  This kind of looks like a problem
> with the terminal emulation.
>
>         -hpa
>
>

hpa,

I've tried it three ways: a direct connection to the serial-over-lan
from putty (emulates xterm by default), via linux (TERM=linux), and
vt100 (terminal-type-vt100 on putty).

-Marc