In message <6513B364-0D6C-4D83-90B6-F248F6000BAC@invisible.ca>, "Jared D. McNei
ll" writes:
>On 2-Feb-06, at 10:14 PM, Jason Mitchell wrote:
>> Anyway, I'm wondering if it would it make sense to add an option to  
>> the i386
>> boot block that would tell it not to try to talk to a VGA card.  
>> This issue
>> also might apply to other headless machines that do VGA emulation  
>> and output
>> the text to a serial port, like the boards from Soekris Engineering
>> (http://www.soekris.com). Does anyone know if they get double  
>> characters
>> output to the serial port?
>
>FWIW, I had no such problems on my Soekris net4801.
>
Neither did I, but I didn't think the Soekris used VGA emulation.  I 
just have a serial boot block installed.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb