Re: Strange boot problem

[roman songdog eskimo com (Bill Roman)]

Arthur Shaffer wrote:

> I have just encountered a strange boot problem that I am pretty sure is
> related to Milo. [...]  Suddenly, when I try to give a boot command at
> the milo prompt, the use of the letter "a" introduces three lines of
> repeated letters, and the boot obviously doesn't happen.

Any chance you have a modem connected to the first serial port?  MILO by
default echoes console I/O to the serial port, and also accepts input from
it.  This obviously can cause confusion if a modem is present.

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Bill Roman  (roman@songdog.eskimo.com / roman@songdog.uucp)   running linux