On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:01:30 -0700
Joey Korkames <joey+lists@kidfixit.com> wrote:

> When migrating my Grub1 pxegrub setup to grub2 for testing, some of
> the new quirks in the serial system have bothered me...
> 
> Unlike Grub Legacy, where I can specifiy 
> the serial console, and have the menu simul-displayed on both vga and
> serial (if port actually exists); Grub2 can't simul-display.

I wonder if Robert Millan's 'Terminal split' patch will allow this.  He
plans, I think, to support having both AT keyboard + USB keyboard
input, so I think that supporting serial in/out and keyboard/VGA in/out
should be a similar situation.

I'll let Robert chime in on this.

Regards,
Colin