Re: Serial console install

Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 13:48 +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote:
> 
>>On Do, 7.04.2005, 13:23, Eric Anderson sagte:
>>
>>>Sławek Żak wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'd like to ask what's the reason behind requiring a keyboard during
>>>>FreeBSD install. Headless configuration is the most common in
>>>>datacenters and toying with KVM and VGA cable is often a no-no
>>>>(distance in the issue my case).
>>>>
>>>
>>>Maybe so, but then people who do have video consoles plugged in would have
>>>to hit a key to keep going.
>>>
>>
>>Isn't it possible to send out the output of FreeBSD's bootloader to VGA
>>and serial console ?
>>This would be perfect. We could have a point in our bootmenu to hit a
>>specific key for serial console install, or for VGA based install.
>>But I believe for the time being it's not possible to have the same output
>>on console and vga.
> 
> 
> See the patch associated with PR kern/66425 - which basically makes the
> -D dual-console support work.
> 
> I've been using it on all my machines now for about a year without
> problems.  When I first floated the idea there were a lot of people who
> wanted this support, but since writing it there's been very little
> interest in incorporating it into the tree :(
> 
> Not that any of this helps your need at the moment, but hopefully it'll
> stop you from having to write any code yourself :)

This is great!  It must have fallen through the cracks.. Can some official FreeBSD person with the magical bits look at it and commit it?

Eric



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