From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 12:58:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C4D116A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 12:58:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (mail-gw0.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 191CB43D54 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 12:58:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (buffy-128.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.165]) by mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j37CwBck018750; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:58:11 +0100 (BST) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j37CwAUL019871; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:58:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j37Cw9mL019870; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:58:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: Marian Hettwer In-Reply-To: <4142.212.12.51.89.1112874483.squirrel@212.12.51.89> References: <787bbe1c0504070307670f5e5d@mail.gmail.com> <4255182E.1020002@centtech.com> <4142.212.12.51.89.1112874483.squirrel@212.12.51.89> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:58:07 +0100 Message-Id: <1112878688.82439.4.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial console install X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:58:17 -0000 On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 13:48 +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote: > On Do, 7.04.2005, 13:23, Eric Anderson sagte: > > S=C3=85=E2=80=9Aawek =C3=85=C2=BBak wrote: > >> I'd like to ask what's the reason behind requiring a keyboard during > >> FreeBSD install. Headless configuration is the most common in > >> datacenters and toying with KVM and VGA cable is often a no-no > >> (distance in the issue my case). > >> > > Maybe so, but then people who do have video consoles plugged in would h= ave > > to hit a key to keep going. > > > Isn't it possible to send out the output of FreeBSD's bootloader to VGA > and serial console ? > This would be perfect. We could have a point in our bootmenu to hit a > specific key for serial console install, or for VGA based install. > But I believe for the time being it's not possible to have the same outpu= t > on console and vga. See the patch associated with PR kern/66425 - which basically makes the -D dual-console support work. I've been using it on all my machines now for about a year without problems. When I first floated the idea there were a lot of people who wanted this support, but since writing it there's been very little interest in incorporating it into the tree :( Not that any of this helps your need at the moment, but hopefully it'll stop you from having to write any code yourself :) Gavin