> > >Isn't there a better way to identify a serial console?
> >
> > I don't understand. What do you expect the boot loader to do?
>
> I'm not sure, that's why I asked the list :-) Really, what I was asking
> is if there is a better way to detect a serial console.. Rather than the
> current logic of "If there is no keyboard, there must be a serial
> console". I can think of N reasons why a box would have no keyboard
> attached, besides having a serial console.
Actually, there aren't very many. If you don't have a keyboard, you need
a console of some sort. If you don't have a console, you've made enough
modifications to be undaunted by removing two bytes from /boot.config.
> I know very little about serial consoles, but can they not be probed
> somehow to determine their existence? If that's not possible, at least,
> what I'm suggesting below still sounds reasonable.
No, they can't be probed, and no, if you think about it for a minute,
what you're proposing is entirely nonsensical.
Note also that the probe-for-keyboard feature is only used on the
installation media; it's not the default for system behaviour (yet).
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