[ipxe-devel] login/menu commands and serial console?

[Sven Dreyer]

Ben and Michael, thanks for your hints!

it turned out I was using the BIOS output of iPXE, which was redirected 
to the serial console by the ALIX and APU boards.

So I disabled CONSOLE_PCBIOS and enabled CONSOLE_SERIAL and now it looks 
way better.

Thanks again!
Sven


Am 21.07.2015 um 19:58 schrieb Michael Brown:
> On 21/07/15 18:35, Ben Hildred wrote:
>> I hit a similar problem, and I have been toying with the idea of adding
>> support for basic ansi escapes to iPXE and rewriting the full screen
>> parts to use it (menu, login, and config)
>
> iPXE already uses ANSI escape sequences internally for all console I/O,
> with an internal translation layer to drive the BIOS INT 10 and other
> non-ANSI consoles.
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Sven Dreyer <sven at dreyer-net.de> wrote:
>>     I normally use iPXE on a VGA screen (BIOS mode). But I also own some
>>     PC Engines ALIX / APU boards. Those do not have a VGA part, so I
>>     need to use the serial port.
>>
>>     When using "login" command, it looks a bit weird, because everytime
>>     I type a character, the whole line is repeated. Typing my username
>>     "sven" would result in
>>
>>     s  sv  sve   sven
>
> Are you using:
>
>   (a) iPXE's own serial console support (CONSOLE_SERIAL in
> config/console.h),
>   (b) some kind of serial console emulation provided by your BIOS, or
>   (c) both
>
> Option (a) should work.  Option (b) may work if your BIOS is good
> enough.  Option (c) is not going to work since both iPXE and the BIOS
> will be attempting to drive the serial port simultaneously.
>
> Michael
>