On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:55:30PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> That's because it uses completely upside-down and inside-out logic.  The
> correct test is not to see if there's a serial port connected (quite the
> contrary since there might not actually be anything connected at boot
> time, or if it is it might not be powered up or whatever), but rather to
> test if a PC keyboard is connected.  For the most part it seems almost

A reliable test to see if a keyboard is connected isn't that easy.
Also, I have applications where I don't want the boot loader to switch
to serial console when there's no keyboard (consoles switchs in the wrong
position when the machine boots).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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