On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:17:14AM -0800, Ed Gould wrote:
> The boot blocks listen to the serial port (because the BIOS does serial 
> redirection), but the installer, in the default build, writes to video 
> and only listens to the (USB, in this case) keyboard.

If you stop the boot countdown (by pressing space for example) and
then do

  consdev com0

(for the first serial port) the bootloader should switch to serial mode (and
hopefully the bios redirection will cope). Then just

  boot

and you should be set.

Martin