Android PandaBoard: Linux terminal output for debugging? My research team is currently considering investing in a PandaBoard for Android b/c we are developing a custom kernel/sys-image and would like Linux terminal output.

Does the Pandaboard give me booting information?  Such as printing kernel messages to the Linux terminal as the board loads up the system image?  So for example, if the phone crashes, I can at least see how far the phone made it in the boot process.
See this link for the general idea.

For verification, do the following steps:


Connect DB9 to your host (PC) &lt;------> Panda board (target). You need to connect with minicom and mini USB for adb shell.
pc$ sudo minicom
You should have adb shell for the Android SDK.
pc$ export PATH=$PATH://android-sdk-linux/platform-tools
Reboot the panda board.
pc$ adb devices # to check the device is connected or not
pc$ adb reboot   # to reboot


On minicom terminal, you will get logs of the reboot. At the end, it will ask you to hit a key to stop auto boot. This will tell you if the device is getting the image or not. If you want to boot manuually by using U-Boot terminal, press key so you will get U-Boot terminal.

 hardware_name# bootm 


This will help you a little bit.