Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:10:55 +0100 From: Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> To: "Eugene M. Zheganin" <emz@norma.perm.ru> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hw.vga.textmode=1 and the installation media Message-ID: <7E07BFD6-EDEB-41C8-A416-868CB3677B86@sarenet.es> In-Reply-To: <281b3d7d-46ef-d1b8-304f-1573abeedc20@norma.perm.ru> References: <281b3d7d-46ef-d1b8-304f-1573abeedc20@norma.perm.ru>
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> On 10 Dec 2017, at 09:47, Eugene M. Zheganin <emz@norma.perm.ru> wrote: > > 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). Indeed. I never understood the merit of using graphical modes on the console. HP’s iLO has a nice feature. Unless the console is set to graphics mode it’s possible to access it through a ssh session. No need to fumble with Java or modified VNC versions. Borja.
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