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Subject: misc/5001: During installation sc0 device is required, but you can disable it
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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: