[Soekris] GRUB terminal emulation?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Jordan Share wrote:

> It's definitely incompatibility between grub and the console emulation.  
> If you tell grub to only use serial, then it works as you'd expect.

To my eye it appears to be the same problem that PXELINUX has as well; 
it's almost like comBIOS is trying to use ANSI/VT100 commands to 
translate the INT10 stuff that the loaders are doing, but the commands 
are not complete. What I see when GRUB is loading and running almost 
looks like the commands missing the ESC characters, but I haven't really 
looked very closely :-)

GRUB works fine when told to use the serial port directly; PXELINUX 
works OK as long as you only need to load the default kernel, or are 
willing to type in the label you need without much useful feedback 
(although I will also try the hacked serial-only PXELINUX as well).