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Subject: Re: COMCONSOLE speed
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 13:52:50 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199604040736.RAA32375@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 4, 96 05:36:37 pm
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Bruce Evans writes:
| 
| >Finally, is it the case that FreeBSD 2.1R *requires* a vga card
| >to be installed in order to even boot? My netboot kernel page faults
| >after the device probes when I take out the video card.
| 
| It should work.  Try disabling the console driver(s).  scprobe() always
| succeeds.  It's not clear what the driver will do when there is no vga
| card.

Disable sc0 via boot -c or rebuild a kernel without syscons or pcvt and 
this should fix your problem.  Make sure you also disable getty on the
virtual consoles.  This works for me.

It would be nice if scprobe could avoid the panic by detecting if a monitor
card was there.

Doug A.