Re: serial console unplugged, boot hangs, help !

[Marco S Hyman <marc@snafu.org>]

Richard Bignell writes:

 > nothing else happens on the VGA screen. Great, ...but... I checked 
 > what happens if the terminal (minicom on Linux in my case) is 
 > unplugged at boot time, and the boot process *hangs* !! When I plug 

Guess: the software is looking for `carrier' which is gone when the
term is unplugged.  If that is the problem and you can't get around
it in software you can always make a plug that ties CTS to RTS and
DTR to DCD and DSR to make things happy.

// marc