a) What Wolfgang said :-).

b) What does your EP8260 config file have in it for CONFIG_BAUDRATE?  Did
you override it in the environmental variables and inadvertently switch to
a different baud rate?  Did you try different baud rates with minicom to
see if you could find the one the EP8260 is using?

ANSI vs. VT100 isn't going to do much for you (that is escape
sequences).  It looks like a baud rate mismatch.  It might be 7 bit vs. 8
bit or parity, but not likely.


gvb


At 07:32 AM 7/22/2003 +0530, deepesh@india.tejasnetworks.com wrote:

Hi,

  I loaded my EP8260 board with UBOOT. This was working fine. Then I loaded a
binary into RAM using tftp. Then tried copying the stuff to flash. When I
could
not copy things into flash directly, I erased a few sectors randomly and then
copied the binary to flash. Then when I reset the board, it did not come up.

I put back the u-boot into the flash using BDI2000. But now I am getting weird
characters on the screen. I have looked at the minicom settings-- It is 115200
and 8N1. These were the settings with which I was working before also.
What I am
not able to understand is the reason for the weird characters.

I am attaching the weird character file. The last line seems to be the U-BOOT
prompt. I tried changing the TERMINAL SETTINGS to ANSI from VT100, but it did
not help.
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Thank you,
Deepesh

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