Re: setting the console to serial by defailt seems to not work

From: Toomas Soome <tsoome_at_me.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:20:15 UTC

> On 31. Jul 2024, at 15:01, void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 08:55:22PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>> void <void@f-m.fm> writes:
>>> The arm64 device is headless and i connect to it via serial.
>>> I noticed the beastie menu come up with the option Video for
>>> console. Cycled it to Serial, booted, all fine.  [...]
>> 
>> man boot.config
> 
> Thank you for this. I did 'echo "-h" > /boot.config and then booted
> and it showed console messages going to the console. This is a result I'm happy with.
> 
> What's a bit confusing is 
> 1. it did this with option 5: Cons set to Video in the beastie menu
> 2. setting it to Serial in this menu doesn't 'stick' across reboots.
> 
> -- 
> 

anything* you set in beastie menu is volatile and is not preserved.

—
* except if nvstore is used, but it needs a bit of love.

rgds,
toomas