From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sun Dec 10 08:47:59 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757E7E8612B for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 08:47:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emz@norma.perm.ru) Received: from elf.hq.norma.perm.ru (mail.norma.perm.ru [IPv6:2a00:7540:1::5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.norma.perm.ru", Issuer "Vivat-Trade UNIX Root CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EAC7368A05 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 08:47:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emz@norma.perm.ru) Received: from [192.168.243.2] ([192.168.243.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by elf.hq.norma.perm.ru (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id vBA8lqVo064353 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 13:47:53 +0500 (YEKT) (envelope-from emz@norma.perm.ru) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=norma.perm.ru; s=key; t=1512895673; bh=d+Rb0wd1kZ1lklRyhlGSDahsefbzH38iI71cow6OsP0=; h=To:From:Subject:Date; b=F6+BDJnGCPJMDw9o9g3zBjeDmBu35nl/wz0cHMbWej0cZPBQkge6tpe4cs960ljVb WaF3lc49qrbOY9BmrV62Pv2Nsr4b59sn3ZWENXTRFUmpDC1+U3B9bPdh6Zh/p5qzhx AkZABqeNnq92rIDPJ0vOGPGFHc6LVm3lZX3vjoag= To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: "Eugene M. Zheganin" Subject: hw.vga.textmode=1 and the installation media Message-ID: <281b3d7d-46ef-d1b8-304f-1573abeedc20@norma.perm.ru> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 13:47:53 +0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-GB X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 08:47:59 -0000 Hi, would be really nice if the 11.2 and subsequent versions would come with the hw.vga.textmode=1 as the default in the installation media. Because you know, there's a problem with some vendors (like HP) who's servers are incapable of showing graphics in IPMI with the default hw.vga.textmode=0 (yeah, I'm aware that most of the vendors don't have this issue), and there's still a bug that prevents this from being set from a loader prompt - USB keyboard doesn't work at least in 11.0 there (seems to be some sort of FreeBSD "holy cow", along with sshd starting last, after all the local daemons. I would ask again to fix the latter as I did last years, but it really seems to be a cornerstone which the FreeBSD is built upon). Thanks. Eugene.