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

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"Timothy Legge" <tim...@us...> writes:

> > 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.

It might be worth it to try using a serial console, and disable output
through the BIOS.  That would at least give you a clue about what is going
on.

Eric