[ipxe-devel] menu & serial console

[Ján ONDREJ (SAL)]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 12:40:15AM +0000, Michael Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 Mar 2013 21:00:53 Leo Baltus wrote:
> The problem is that you have both iPXE and the BIOS's console redirection 
> attempting to control the serial port.  At a minimum, you'll get two copies of 
> each character; after you add in the various control codes typically generated 
> by BIOS console redirection, the result will look inexplicably garbled.
> 
> You need to either disable CONSOLE_SERIAL, or disable the BIOS's console 
> redirection.

I have similar problems too. Can you please add ipxe command, which can
disable serial console at menu run? If this happens, I still can put some
keys from serial or bios console, which can run an predefined command
and disable this "feature".

Because I don't know, how this PC is configured, it's hard to have 2
different compiled versions of ipxe and I need a version, which can
disable serial console on run time.

> You'll get more predictable results by disabling the BIOS's console 
> redirection and leaving CONSOLE_SERIAL enabled; iPXE produces standard ANSI 
> escape sequences that should work (including colours, menus, etc) on pretty 
> much any serial terminal software.  BIOS console redirection tends to be more 
> limited, and often doesn't cope well with things such as colour changes and 
> cursor movement.

Colours and arrow keys does not work for me too (qemu+ipxe serial).
I don't need colours, it's displayed nicely as serial, what is OK for me.
But arrow keys would be nice. I use menu's hot keys to navigate against
menu, but having other navigation keys keys will be useful.

					SAL