Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:18:15 +0200 (CEST) From: "Marian Hettwer" <MH@kernel32.de> To: "Gavin Atkinson" <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> Subject: Re: Serial console install Message-ID: <4122.212.12.51.89.1112879895.squirrel@212.12.51.89> In-Reply-To: <1112878688.82439.4.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <787bbe1c0504070307670f5e5d@mail.gmail.com> <4255182E.1020002@centtech.com> <4142.212.12.51.89.1112874483.squirrel@212.12.51.89> <1112878688.82439.4.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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On Do, 7.04.2005, 14:58, Gavin Atkinson sagte: > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 13:48 +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote: >> 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 >> output >> on console and vga. > > See the patch associated with PR kern/66425 - which basically makes the > -D dual-console support work. > really ? This sounds perfect. I'll check that out at my testing machine at home. Luckily I have a monitor connected _and_ a console server ;-) > 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 :( > I wonder why ... I'll raise my hand for: Incorporate this change if the code is clean! I'd really like to have this feature :-) (Perhaps someone from -core is reading this thread ;-) ) > Not that any of this helps your need at the moment, but hopefully it'll > stop you from having to write any code yourself :) > I'll give it a try under RELENG_5 and perhaps -CURRENT ... - Marian
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