From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 10 17:53:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C097D37B855; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:53:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA02626; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:54:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003110154.RAA02626@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: Mike Smith , Kazutaka YOKOTA , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:45:33 CST." <4.3.2.20000310194350.00b698e0@207.227.119.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:54:53 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 05:06 PM 3/10/00 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > >Note also that the probe-for-keyboard feature is only used on the > >installation media; it's not the default for system behaviour (yet). > > Hopefully that "yet" will be "never" so one can boot sans keyboard and > later hook one up if need be. Since you can't safely hot-plug the PC keyboard, that wouldn't be very smart. The only way to auto-detect the use of a serial console is to look for a keyboard; if one isn't plugged in, there's no local console, end of story. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message