[syslinux] 6.01-pre 4 no timeout when using serial

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Sun Jun 30 05:20:27 PDT 2013


On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Could it be that syslinux is waiting for ever if you use serial mode?
>>>
>>> SERIAL 0 115200
>>
>>> TIMEOUT 300
>>
>> Gert, Romain: Have you tried lowering the serial rate or timeout?  ie:
>>
>> SERIAL 0 9600
>> TIMEOUT 30
>>
>> Romain: is this observed on a physical or virtual machine?
>
> Rather, have you only observed this under qemu?

Testing:

SERIAL 0 9600
TIMEOUT 1

I observe the same behavior on an OS-hosted VMware platform with
precompiled binaries from 5.00-pre1, 5.00, 5.11-pre3.

--
-Gene


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