Connecting to a Console Window

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Connecting to a Console Window

You can open a console window that allows you to watch and interrupt EVM boot messages by following these steps:

1)	Connect a serial cable between the serial port on the EVM and the serial port (for example, COM1) on a PC.
2)	Run a terminal session (such as Minicom on Linux or HyperTerminal on Windows) on the workstation and configure it to connect to that serial port with the following characteristics:

• Bits per Second: 115200
• Data Bits: 8
• Parity: None
• Stop Bits: 1
• Flow Control: None

For a short tutorial on setting up Minicom in Ubuntu for use as a console window, please see Setting up Minicom in Ubuntu.

3)	When you power on the EVM, you will see boot sequence messages. You can press a key to interrupt the boot sequence and type commands in the U-Boot command shell. In this guide, commands to be typed in the U-Boot shell are indicated by an EVM # prompt.

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