Navigating the Console

This page shows the most important commands to start navigating through each of the Pantavisor consoles.

Bootloader Console

The bootloader console can be accessed by interrupting the boot up from either TTY or using keyboard and monitor.

U-Boot

Among other things, from the U-Boot console, you can configure some Pantavisor parameters with Linux environment variables.

To do so, you just have to assign a string with one to many key=value pairs, separated by space to the configargs variable. In this example, we are setting the log level to WARN and disabling the push of logs to Pantacor Hub:

setenv configargs $configargs PV_LOG_LEVEL=2 PV_LOG_PUSH=0
saveenv
reset

You can check these and more configurable keys in our reference.

Grub

Setting Linux environment variables is not supported on the Grub platforms. Contact us if you need support for your board!

Pantavisor Console

The Pantavisor console can be accessed using the '/' root container via SSH. Also, getting into the debug shell from either TTY or keyboard and monitor.

Pantavisor Root

To list all running container names:

lxc-ls

Here, we have access to the different containers using the pventer command. To open a session into the alpine-nginx container:

pventer -c alpine-nginx

pvr-sdk

From the pvr-sdk container console, you have at your disposal some handy development utilities such as Pantabox, pvtx and pvcontrol.

The rest of this how-to guide focus on the higher level Pantabox tool.