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From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: bin/161047: bsdinstall should not run on vt0
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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