Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:32:51 +0200 (CEST) From: dirkx@covalent.net To: DougB@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sheldonh@starjuice.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mini-Head's up: rc.syscons now test for /dev/ttyv0 Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.43.0206172132100.339-100000@mobile.webweaving.org> In-Reply-To: <20020617113024.L3858-100000@master.gorean.org>
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> > I'm not sure how much it actually matters, though. A nonexistent > > /dev/ttyv0 seems quite pathalogical to me. > > Not in a diskless boot situation, which (according to the comment) > is the primary reason for this test. Also, the rest of the file is > meaningless in the absence of this device anyway, so the test is > reasonable. Actually diskless -and- headless (i.e. a net 4501 from soekris.com with just a serial console). It is the headless part which makes the VGA and hence the ttyv0 go missing. Dw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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