Syslinux - Jan 2005 - NOCONSOLE feature request not obsoleted by BIOS upgrade

Over on the soekris-tech list, Jim Cromie wrote:

[snip]
> Im curious, did you update your bios, and if so, did it fix the
> screen-spew ?

[snip]
> I requested a few features, which he's considering.
> one of which is NOCONSOLE, which was intended to
> be a work-around for the escape-sequences put in by the
> video emulation.
>
> If the bios has fixed that problem, I should scratch that
> off the request-list b4 he goes and implements it.
>
> But I dont have my box at hand to try upgrading myself currently.

Jordan anwered:

I've upgraded mine to 1.26. The pxelinux stuff does look "better"
(you
can read some stuff) but it is still unusable.

NOCONSOLE would be awesome.  I currently use a version of pxelinux.0 
that Dave Johnson posted a URL to.  It does not output to the console, 
only serial.

Jordan

.. that link follows, its a patch against 2.06  ...

I hacked up a pxelinux that works around this by only outputing to the
serial port a while back:

http://centerclick.org/net4801/pxelinux/

Jim Cromie wrote:
> 
> Jordan anwered:
> 
> I've upgraded mine to 1.26. The pxelinux stuff does look
"better" (you
> can read some stuff) but it is still unusable.
> 
> NOCONSOLE would be awesome.  I currently use a version of pxelinux.0 
> that Dave Johnson posted a URL to.  It does not output to the console, 
> only serial.
> 
OK, it's in 3.02-pre3, which I just released (although I made it 
affirmative and called it CONSOLE), completely untested, of course. 
Since you requested it, you get to do that part ;)
	
	-hpa