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David Golden wrote: > On Wednesday 30 August 2006 15:09, Marian Hettwer wrote: > > >>Linux can cope with this situation and OpenBSD can't. > > > Hmph. Could well just be because linux (or at least syslinux) > blindly assumes something that openbsd (probably correctly) > checks, though? In this specific case it's pxelinux.0 which gets loaded via PXE and then loads the kernel (linux itself) with some parameters for serial console output. In this regards, it's Linux itself doing something different than OpenBSD. What it is? Dunno... In an administrator standpoint, Linux is doing the "better" thing, attaching a serial console, although the BIOS is already using that serial port. (And no, this is not a flame bait. I do prefer OpenBSD (and FreeBSD) over Linux, a lot!) ./Marian iD8DBQFE9a1HgAq87Uq5FMsRAku6AJ9B1aVtwINGH3ve0yIFksatiYqeFQCdE/lf GetE/G4ke7ryYBfRdnZ/Ktw= =8EAx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
