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Date:      Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:14:26 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        rupp@coredump.at
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Install problem on AS200 4/166
Message-ID:  <15374.40002.476399.463472@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20011205214122.21525.qmail@cassandra.coredump.at>
References:  <15374.38940.42677.984388@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20011205214122.21525.qmail@cassandra.coredump.at>

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rupp@coredump.at writes:
 > > Are you using a serial console?
 > 
 > I tried serial, graphics (i.e., text output on the graphics card),
 > and headless (serial without any card).
 > 
 > >  TGA support isn't in 4.4-RELEASE
 > > If you want to actually be able to use the TGA for a graphics console,
 > 
 > If you mean "graphics console" as in "X", I don't care about X.
 > If you mean "for text output", I don't understand. When I boot
 > into the installation, it works, the kernel boots, and it comes to
 > copying files. If I could not use TGA in any case, it should not work
 > that far - should it?

It depends what you mean by "copying files"  

 > And it freezes with serial console also, anyway.

One of the most common question is from people who have TGAs, don't
realize its unsupported, and get confused when they see output on the
screen asking them to select a terminal type & the computer doesn't
respond to their choice.  If you're doing the installation on a serial
console, this doesn't apply to you.

Have you actually done 'set console serial' at the >>> prompt, booted
FreeBSD, and started the installation purely on the serial console?

Drew






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