Great! Worked! [Was Re: kdb from COM1: doesn't work with ctrl-A]

[Chess ForFun]

Hi Keith,

Thaaaaaaaaaanks a ton!
Your  following suggestions made it work.
[I compiled the kernel with CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y].

I can get to kdb from minicom and kermit both, also throug a telnet 
session-via serial console.

Just a small suggestion: I haven't found the above in any documentation or 
in "make menuconfig" screens or elsewhere. It would have been very easy if 
this option was under "Kernel Hacking" of "make menuconfig"...or at least in 
HELP screen where I enabled kdb.

cheers, chessforfun :-)

>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?

yes, I always logged in using serial console.


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