Dave Stanhope wrote:
> 
> the boot blocks do tell the kernel which one to use, one thing I would find
> usefull is the ability to switch between serial and video console is the
> abscence/precence of the keyboard, this requires no use interaction in
> normal usage, but makes it easy to get back to the video when desired.
> We put this in locally and it works well.
> 
>                    Dave Stanhope
>                    dms@celtech.com

A slight dissent: I have normally novideo/nokeyboard machines, which
are told in BIOS that this is their fate. When console is needed,
however, plugging in a monitor and a keyboard works. The proposed change
would break this, since the system would search for a non-existent
serial console. In other words, what I'm saying is that presence
or absence of keyboard at boottime, does not now (and I ask that it
should not in future) imply the presence or absence of the keyboard later on.
(Model: keyboards and monitors on A/B/C/D... switches.)

Dave
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