Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:15:09 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: ticso@cicely.de (Bernd Walter) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual console don't work Message-ID: <199902020915.LAA00389@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <19990202082220.64600@cicely.de> from Bernd Walter at "Feb 2, 99 08:22:20 am"
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Bernd Walter wrote: > I use -h -D in /boot.config > Today I wanted to boot with monitor and keyboard. > All I got was the first stage of the news boot loader on vga and seriel. > The prompt itself goes only on seriel so there wasn't a chance to switch > the console back to vga without a terminal. This is deliberate, FWIW. The old bootblocks privately define RB_DUAL, and you won't find it in <sys/reboot.h> with the other flags like RB_SINGLE, RB_SERIAL, etc. For compatibility, the new bootblocks honor the -D option, as far as their own behavior goes. But they don't pass RB_DUAL, as one of the "howto" flags, on to either the kernel or /boot/loader. So -D is preserved only as a backward-compatibility option (and therefore applies only to stage two of the bootstrap), and /boot/loader knows nothing about it. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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