Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 18:37:52 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com> To: ambrisko@tcs.com (Douglas Ambrisko) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, archie@tribe.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: COMCONSOLE speed Message-ID: <199604050237.SAA14685@bubba.tribe.com> In-Reply-To: <199604042152.NAA11190@cozumel.tcs.com> from "Douglas Ambrisko" at Apr 4, 96 01:52:50 pm
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> | >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. Thanks for the help! I recompiled with pcvt and it worked fine (except for garbage output before the serial port probe, so what). I didn't disable the getty's and that didn't seem to hurt anything. Thanks, -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Whistle Communications Corporation
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