Just getting started COM port not connecting!

[Ralphxyz]

It WORKS finally!!

It took multiple tries of the button dance but finally it actually worked!!

Right at the [Connecting........_] I let go of the EN button:

Ralph@HP_10292012 MINGW32 ~/esp
$ cd hello_world

Ralph@HP_10292012 MINGW32 ~/esp/hello_world
$ make flash
Toolchain path: /opt/xtensa-esp32-elf/bin/xtensa-esp32-elf-gcc
Toolchain version: crosstool-ng-1.22.0-80-g6c4433a5
Compiler version: 5.2.0
Python requirements from C:/Users/Ralph/_ESP32/msys32/home/Ralph/esp/esp-idf/requirements.txt are satisfied.
Project is not inside a git repository, will not use 'git describe' to determine PROJECT_VER.
App "hello-world" version: 1
Flashing binaries to serial port com11 (app at offset 0x10000)...
esptool.py v2.6
Serial port com11
Connecting........_
Chip is ESP32D0WDQ6 (revision 1)
Features: WiFi, BT, Dual Core, Coding Scheme None
MAC: 30:ae:a4:85:82:04
Uploading stub...

So Start the Flash [make flash]
Press and hold the BOOT and the EN buttons
AT Connecting........_ release the EN button

make monitor then works

I (320) cpu_start: Starting scheduler on PRO CPU.
I (0) cpu_start: Starting scheduler on APP CPU.
Hello world!
This is ESP32 chip with 2 CPU cores, WiFi/BT/BLE, silicon revision 1, 4MB extern
al flash
Restarting in 10 seconds...
Restarting in 9 seconds...
Restarting in 8 seconds...
Restarting in 7 seconds...
Restarting in 6 seconds...
Restarting in 5 seconds...
Restarting in 4 seconds...

Traceback (most recent call last):

This is all to see ["Hello World"]

Thanks for all of the help!!
Ralph