RE: [Etherboot-developers] 5.1 will not boot on 486

[Timothy L. <tim...@us...>]

> I still think it's the printf itself that's blocking after printing
one
> character. I still think the serial port is being written to somehow.
> Even though the serial port may be present, if the handshake lines are
> not enabled, the write to the port may block.
> 
> What happens if you put another printf ahead the current one, this
time
> with a different first character?

I thought that as well.  I wanted to see what was going on, so I put a
single printf before the current one.  That printf also failed after
outputting the first character.  I followed up with an infinite while
loop to printf a word.  That also failed after printing the first
character of the first iteration.

Tim