From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 13:18:35 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 63D8B16A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:18:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from crivens.unixoid.de (crivens.unixoid.de [81.169.171.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E67843D31 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:18:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MH@kernel32.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crivens.unixoid.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29A7C41A4; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:18:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from crivens.unixoid.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (crivens.unixoid.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 95611-17; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:18:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by crivens.unixoid.de (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9525D4164; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:18:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 212.12.51.89 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mh); by mail.reisegruppe-mollengrab.de with HTTP; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:18:15 +0200 (CEST) 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> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:18:15 +0200 (CEST) From: "Marian Hettwer" To: "Gavin Atkinson" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixoid.de cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Marian Hettwer 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 13:18:35 -0000 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