[syslinux] BTW, serial 0

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 08/11/2010 11:13 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> 
> I would hope for nothing extra-ordinary.  I.e. the same as it would do
> without the serial statement.  And I believe it does.
> 
> I do in fact boot my laptop with "serial 0" (trying to standardize my
> extlinux.conf files on different systems), and this laptop does not have
> any serial ports.  Not even a hidden one.  This is /proc/ioports:
> 

Syslinux *does* try very hard to probe for a working serial port, and
ignores the serial port command if there is no port.

	-hpa