From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 2 09:13:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07717 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:13:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07708 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:13:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id JAA36862; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:12:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:12:40 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199902021712.JAA36862@apollo.backplane.com> To: Robert Nordier Cc: ticso@cicely.de (Bernd Walter), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual console don't work References: <199902020915.LAA00389@ceia.nordier.com> 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 Is there a replacement for this functionality with the new bootloader? I was trying to get duel consoles working on a rack mount machine a week or two ago and met with utter failure. It was quite annoying. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message