From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 13:21:12 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 E11BD16A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:21:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0218543D2D for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:21:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j37DLBsO012986; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 08:21:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <425533A3.6030901@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:20:35 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050325 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gavin Atkinson 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> In-Reply-To: <1112878688.82439.4.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 13:21:13 -0000 Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 13:48 +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote: > >>On Do, 7.04.2005, 13:23, Eric Anderson sagte: >> >>>Sławek Żak 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 have >>>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 output >>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 :) This is great! It must have fallen through the cracks.. Can some official FreeBSD person with the magical bits look at it and commit it? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------