[syslinux] problems with isolinux over serial console

Shao Miller sha0.miller at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 16:09:36 PST 2012


On 12/6/2012 18:52, Marc Pascual wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>> What terminal emulator are you using?  This kind of looks like a problem
>> with the terminal emulation.
>>
> 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).

If the serial-over-LAN is plaintext, perhaps a tcpdump/Wireshark capture 
could confirm what is or isn't coming across.  - Shao



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