Serial Console stopped working

[franco]

First things first: which hardware is this?

And does it have a VGA port?


Cheers,
Franco

[Steven]

Hi

First things first: which hardware is this?

And does it have a VGA port?

It's a Qotom q500g6.

It has a HDMI and Serial port.

[franco]

Thanks, I suspect that a VGA/HDMI ready device might not like to be forced as being a primarily serial device or it could be that the kernel refuses to do it in such cases because it can't get rid of the non-serial port during initialisation.

Does the HDMI port in this configuration work for login though?

In any case your configuration suggestion is the best approach here.

From experience with Nano image testing I can say, however, that -D -h and serial as primary works on all the devices in my test pool, but to be fair I don't have a Qotom.


Cheers,
Franco