Incorrect serial port address specified for MACHINE=dell_s6010_c2538

[shodanx2]

Hello,

The Dell PowerSwitch S6010-ON switch has a hardware serial port in the front for service.

This port is not COM1/ttyS0/0x3F8 but instead it is COM2/ttyS1/0x2F8

This causes two issues

First the GRUB boot menu is not visible, and therefore the user cannot select the boot mode

(I needed to boot in Rescue as the manual indicated, but was never able, even after learning to compile ONIE from scratch !)

Second is that, the wrong kernel parameters are passed and console output is sent to the first serial port, where it cannot be seen by the user !

So far I have manually resolved this by editing the file

/mnt/onie-boot/onie/grub/grub.cfg

and making the following changes

Changing the line

serial --port=0x3f8 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1

for

serial --port=0x2f8 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1

This makes the GRUB menu visible during boot

and next changing this line

onie_initargs="console=ttyS0,115200"

to
onie_initargs="console=ttyS1,115200"

And this makes the kernel boot text visible and the serial console usable after boot is completed !

[shodanx2]

I believe the fix would be to change the file

./machine/dell/dell_s6010_c2538

change
CONSOLE_DEV = 0
to
CONSOLE_DEV = 1

Or running this command from onie build folder root

sed -i 's/^CONSOLE_DEV = 0$/CONSOLE_DEV = 1/' ./machine/dell/dell_s6010_c2538/machine.make