Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:30:16 GMT From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/161047: bsdinstall should not run on vt0 Message-ID: <201110070730.p977UGQM025266@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/161047; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org> To: Ben Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/161047: bsdinstall should not run on vt0 Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 10:21:30 +0300 On 2011-09-27, Ben Kaduk wrote: > In the installer images, bsdinstall appears to be running on vt0, > which is by default the (video) console. This means that any console > spew, such as LOR warnings (which are ~guaranteed at present) will > overwrite the installer dialogs. Running the installer on a vt that > is not the console will prevent this. I have an experimental patch to start bsdinstall on ttyv8 when the installer is run on syscons: http://people.freebsd.org/~jh/patches/bsdinstall-getty.3.diff -- Jaakko
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