Excerpts from netbsd: 24-Feb-98 Re: Question about biosboot.. Ken
Hornstein@cmf.nrl.na (688)

> Is there a reason the initio() argument isn't CONSDEV_AUTO?  It would
> seem to me that this wouldn't affect the standard case (booting from
> a "normal" console), and it would make building serial bootblocks easier.

CONSDEV_AUTO will not do the right thing in every case.
It's eg unusable if you have a serial mouse - it will happily
be used as console.
So I think it is better if people adapt the argument to their
needs theirselfes and understand what they are doing.

best regards
Matthias