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

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