Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 17:24:35 +0300 From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/161047: bsdinstall should not run on vt0 Message-ID: <20111007142435.GA2241@a91-153-123-205.elisa-laajakaista.fi> In-Reply-To: <4E8F02C6.8080501@freebsd.org> References: <201110070730.p977UGQM025266@freefall.freebsd.org> <4E8F02C6.8080501@freebsd.org>
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On 2011-10-07, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > 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 > > > > I don't think this works in the context of serial console installations, > and I'd prefer to keep this kind of logic isolated to things like > /usr/src/release/rc.local instead of polluting the installer itself with > knowledge of how it is run. Can you think of a way to do it that doesn't > break serial installations? There's some logic in rc.local already to > detect the console type. My intention was to not break serial console installations but I haven't tested it. With the patch rc.local exits only if syscons is detected. In the serial console case the installer should work as it did previously (but again I haven't tested it). -- Jaakko
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