On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 02:39:05PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Hi, > > I've come across an interesting problem with grub and grub2 booting with only > a > serial console: they won't finish booting if they don't have anything plugged > into the serial port. The moment a serial cable is inserted, they throw up a > menu and continues booting.
Could have something to do with a BIOS bug. What happens if you convert grub_checkkey() and grub_getkey() (in kern/term.c) into dummy stubs? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel