Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 15:56:37 -0800 (PST) From: anthony@pinkworks.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: misc/5001: During installation sc0 device is required, but you can disable it Message-ID: <199711102356.PAA09014@hub.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <199711110000.QAA09258@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 5001 >Category: misc >Synopsis: During installation sc0 device is required, but you can disable it >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Nov 10 16:00:00 PST 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Anthony J Wright >Organization: Pinkworks Ltd >Release: 2.2.5 >Environment: >Description: I had big problems installing FreeBSD which were caused by me disabling the Syscons console driver (sc0) during the 'Kernel Configuration' stage. I was disabling all the drivers that I didn't want (which is an awful lot), and since thinking in terms of MS-DOS, didn't register the need for the console driver. There was no warning/error message when I did so, but the result was that the system seemed to hang when I tried to move onto the next stage of the installation. I think that is should not be possible to disable to sc0 device. >How-To-Repeat: Create a 2.2.5 installation disk. Boot from it. Disable the sc0 device at Kernel Configuration. >Fix: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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