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.

Cheers,
Jared