Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 23:12:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Adi <aditya@grot.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/42022: sysinstall in non-interactive mode prompts when only a serial console is present Message-ID: <200208260612.g7Q6C6iC039691@www.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 42022 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: sysinstall in non-interactive mode prompts when only a serial console is present >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Aug 25 23:20:01 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Adi >Release: 4-STABLE >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD rlx5 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #1: Sat Aug 24 01:26:53 PDT 2002 aditya@six:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RLX i386 >Description: when doing a non-interactive PXE install onto a machine with just a serial console (using set console=comconsole in loader.rc) sysinstall prompts for the terminal type -- if non-interactive, it should use a default terminal type >How-To-Repeat: do a non-interactive PXE install as per Alfred Perlstein's PXE install instructions onto a machine with no video card >Fix: under 4-STABLE, /usr/src/release/sysinstall/termcap.c the prompt_term function should check if the install is non-interactive and RunningAsInit is true and in that case just use the default ANSI compatible term type -- it should be pretty simple, but I am not able to understand the way variable_get(VAR_NONINTERACTIVE) works to put in the test myself. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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