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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:58:14 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Gobbledegeek <gobbledegeek@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: console vesa mode switch needed earlier in boot phase
Message-ID:  <20070117205814.GB91779@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <463aea570701171114v53ccee47i6c6b0aa78bce25ac@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <463aea570701171114v53ccee47i6c6b0aa78bce25ac@mail.gmail.com>

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In the last episode (Jan 18), Gobbledegeek said:
> Currently  the allscreens flags from /etc/rc.conf  is set  at the
> very last during bootup - much after most kernel boot messages are
> logged to screen. Is there a way to make the switch to 1024x768
> console much earlier in the boot process?

You should be able to fiddle with the REQUIRE: line in
/etc/rc.d/syscons to get it to start earlier.  Removing the "LOGIN"
requirement and just leaving "usbd" should make it start quite a bit
earlier in the boot sequence.  If you don't have a USB keyboard, you
could make it "REQUIRE: mountcritlocal", which would be as early as you
can get, since that's what usually mounts /usr.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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