kdb from COM1: doesn't work with ctrl-A

[Keith Owens]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:09:07 -0800, 
"Chess ForFun" <chessforfun at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>
>ok, is this fine now?

Yes, thanks.

>I have got agetty running on machine2 where kdb is running. I also tried 
>with the exact setting of yours. In machine1 I have got kermit (also tried 
>with minicom) running. This is what I do from machine1:
>(machine1 and 2 are intel PCs)
>
>1. run kermit/minicom on COM1
>2. login to machine2
>3. Hit <CTRL-A> to go to debugger of machine2.
>
>This doesn't work.

minicom uses ctrl-A as its own control character so you have to hit it
twice to get to kdb.  You also need to build the kernel with
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y before you can see any kdb output on the serial
console.  Make sure that linux is reading from the serial console
correctly, can you login via the serial console?