Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 12:36:42 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Douglas Ambrisko <ambrisko@tcs.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, archie@tribe.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: COMCONSOLE speed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960405122703.8769A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199604042152.NAA11190@cozumel.tcs.com>
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On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Douglas Ambrisko wrote: > 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. There may be another catch - the motherboard (actually BIOS) requires a card to be there and wont even think of booting if the card isn't there - I can't however comment on percentage of such motherboards. There are at least some behave so. > > It would be nice if scprobe could avoid the panic by detecting if a monitor > card was there. > > Doug A. > Sander Eat good food, preserve nature, be nice to all nice people :)
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