diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0d40bb6fd..4ea99e95b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-06-30  Yoshinori K. Okuji  <okuji@alien>
+
+	* stage2/serial.c [!GRUB_UTIL] (serial_hw_fetch): Fixed the
+	conditional statement. Reported by Ilguiz Latypov.
+	
 2002-06-24  Yoshinori K. Okuji  <okuji@enbug.org>
 
 	* MAINTENANCE: New file.
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index ec17d8c6c..a63436575 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Henrik Nordstrom <hno@marasystems.com>
 Herbert Nachtnebel <nachtneb@iaee.tuwien.ac.at>
 Hisazumi Kenji <nel@soraneko.com>
 HORIKAWA Kazunori <kaz-hori@tkd.att.ne.jp>
+Ilguiz Latypov <ilatypov@superbt.com>
 Jan Fricke <fricke@uni-greifswald.de>
 Jan Zerebecki <jan.list@elite-pferde.de>
 Jason Thomas <jason@topic.com.au>
diff --git a/stage2/serial.c b/stage2/serial.c
index 925bfa8fd..706ff1068 100644
--- a/stage2/serial.c
+++ b/stage2/serial.c
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ outb (unsigned short port, unsigned char value)
 int
 serial_hw_fetch (void)
 {
-  if (inb ((serial_hw_port + UART_LSR) & UART_DATA_READY) == 0)
+  if (inb ((serial_hw_port + UART_LSR) & UART_DATA_READY))
     return inb (serial_hw_port + UART_RX);
 
   return -1;