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* Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> [040523 19:03]:
> On Saturday 22 May 2004 17:21, Timothy Baldwin wrote:
> > How should console errors be handled? Currently they are fatal, and
> > won't happen unless the console is redirected (assuming USB drivers
> > don't complain).
> 
> I don't know. Probably there is no other way than treating them as fatal 
> errors.

What exactly does this mean for booting? The most fatal thing for a
bootloader to be used by server machines are error messages like "no
keyboard found. press f1 to continue". 

Basically, if no console is found by grub, it should continue to boot
the default operating system. Bailing out is definitely no option.

Stefan.