Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:46:46 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/161047: bsdinstall should not run on vt0 Message-ID: <4E8F02C6.8080501@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201110070730.p977UGQM025266@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <201110070730.p977UGQM025266@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On 10/07/11 02:30, Jaakko Heinonen wrote: > 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 > 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. -Nathan
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