Thanks, Tom. The problem ended up being that I unknowingly had hardware
flow control turned ON in minicom. Once, I turned all flow control OFF
(via "minicom -s"), I was able to get to the RedBoot prompt. Whew!
Don
On 11/12/2010 1:37 PM, Tom wrote:
>
>
>
> I had similar difficulties. I doubt you are doing anything wrong.
> I was probably using picocom instead of minicom, but I think the
> default window to get the character in is small. I basically just kept
> trying it until it worked.
>
> You should make sure minicom isn't buffering up the chars somehow.
>
> Failing that, something on the order of
> while(1) do : echo '^c' > /dev/ttyXX
> ought to work. (after fixing the syntax :)
>
> I switched to fastboot shortly afterward, so not an issue for me
> anymore. If you are staying with redboot, I think (once you get
> control of RedBoot) you can open the window for listening for the
> escape character. Of course, it will increase your normal boot time.
>
> tc
>
> --- In <ts-7000%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "Rekcut_Nod" <> wrote:
> >
> > I'm working with minicom into a TS-7260 board, and I try various
> combinations of [Ctrl]-C at boot up in order to exit into RedBoot
> (holding both keys down at power up, waiting until I see the + sign
> and hitting both keys, hitting both keys several times during boot up,
> etc.), but the boot procedure just keeps on going without ever exiting
> into RedBoot. Can someone tell me what I'm not doing right?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Don
> >
>
>
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