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Altera_Forum
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19 years ago

Uart Console

I want to login on a serial UART terminal instead of JTAG terminal.

I configured Nios serial Support

and

Support for console on Nios UART,

I disabled Altera JTAG UART support.

When booting the system I can see the Linux boot messages on my serial terminal (in my case Hyperterminal) but it does not show a login prompt.

Has anybody an idea what is wrong?

As an experiment I added Altera JTAG UART support with support for console on JTAG UART.

When booting I see the Linux bootmessages on the serial console Hyperterminal, the login prompt instead appears only on Nios SDK shell when opening nios2-terminal.

How can I get the login prompt to appear on the serial UART terminal?

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    Altera_Forum
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    Found it myself,

    The 2nd console needs to be enabled in

    inittab

    Now it works