From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 9 10:35:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09802 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 10:35:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09789 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 10:35:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA19273; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 10:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdg19268; Fri Oct 9 17:31:54 1998 Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 10:31:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Justin Clift , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *very* important addition to the installation instructions In-Reply-To: <6209.907926645@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We have 'headless' machines that hang when probing for a non-existant vt0 or sc0 so we meed to disable it from the config editor during boot (booting with serial console) On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > [Inappriate freebsd-doc mailing list clipped; please don't cross-post!] > > > "If you have to boot with '-c' on a first time install, DO NOT remove the > > Syscon Console Driver even if it displays as a conflict. This will leave > > you with a blank screen and no installation." > > This has actually enabled so many people to hang themselves that > with 3.0/2.2.8, it is no longer possible to delete this device. :) > > - Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message