From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 27 13:57:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B14437B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:57:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from lightpro1.lightpro.de (lightpro1.lightpro.de [213.133.98.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AACA743FE0 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:57:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from H@Schmalzbauer.de) Received: from hscpr (host-62-245-208-6.customer.m-online.net [62.245.208.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by lightpro1.lightpro.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) with ESMTP id h1RLvEb7001347; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:57:15 +0100 From: "Harald Schmalzbauer" To: "Eric Veraart" , Subject: RE: Headless server needs atkbd, atkbdc and vga Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:57:12 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030227220537.047aaf80@mail.monkey-online.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > Hello, > > How come a custom kernel build, for a server without a keyboard or > monitor, fails when atkbd0, atkbdc0 and vga0 are not in the kernel > config? Somehow some parts of the kernel needs functions from one of > these. But I don't have a keyboard nor monitor available on my You probably habe the syscons in your kernel conf. If you tell the system that you want to have a cons it needs this stuff. Just remove "device sc0" if you really want to operate only via serial. AFAIK pcvt doesn't need them, but only a guess. Best regards, -Harry > server. I guess the thought never crossed someone's mind that someone > had such a config :) But with the rise of blade servers I think this > is something people should keep in mind. > > Greetings, > Eric > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message