From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 2 01:16:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA13756 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 01:16:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-55-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA13747 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 01:16:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id LAA00389; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:15:12 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199902020915.LAA00389@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: Dual console don't work In-Reply-To: <19990202082220.64600@cicely.de> from Bernd Walter at "Feb 2, 99 08:22:20 am" To: ticso@cicely.de (Bernd Walter) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:15:09 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bernd Walter wrote: > I use -h -D in /boot.config > Today I wanted to boot with monitor and keyboard. > All I got was the first stage of the news boot loader on vga and seriel. > The prompt itself goes only on seriel so there wasn't a chance to switch > the console back to vga without a terminal. This is deliberate, FWIW. The old bootblocks privately define RB_DUAL, and you won't find it in with the other flags like RB_SINGLE, RB_SERIAL, etc. For compatibility, the new bootblocks honor the -D option, as far as their own behavior goes. But they don't pass RB_DUAL, as one of the "howto" flags, on to either the kernel or /boot/loader. So -D is preserved only as a backward-compatibility option (and therefore applies only to stage two of the bootstrap), and /boot/loader knows nothing about it. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message