From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 17 12:33:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.webweaving.org (fia224-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F040637B410; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:33:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.leiden.webweaving.org (localhost.leiden.webweaving.org [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by mobile.webweaving.org (8.12.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g5HJWpqD009352; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:32:51 +0200 (CEST) X-Curiosity: Killed the Cat X-Huis-aan-Huis-deur-sticker: nee-nee X-Spam: no X-Passed: MX on Gandalf.WebWeaving.org Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:32:51 +0200 (CEST) and masked X-No-Spam: Neither the receipients nor the senders email address(s) are to be used for Unsolicited (Commercial) Email without the explicit written consent of either party; as a per-message fee is incurred for inbound and outbound traffic to the originator. Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:32:51 +0200 (CEST) From: dirkx@covalent.net X-X-Sender: dirkx@mobile.webweaving.org To: DougB@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sheldonh@starjuice.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mini-Head's up: rc.syscons now test for /dev/ttyv0 In-Reply-To: <20020617113024.L3858-100000@master.gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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